Strike Force Zaventem investigates suspicious death of Mark Akers

The Daily Advertiser

Strike Force Zaventem is established to investigate the suspicious death of Mark Akers, a Queensland man found dead on the side of the road near Jerilderie, in southern NSW, in June 2025.

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00:00Appealing for some more public information in relation to the death of a male, he was

00:06located on the side of the Muir Highway, approximately 11 kilometres south of Giroudary, on Tuesday

00:12the 17th of June, around 12.35pm, we found that gentleman after the information we had

00:20received from the public.

00:21I can confirm now that that gentleman's name is Mr Mark Ackers, a 44 year old man from

00:28Brisbane in Queensland, and the strike force cementer has been established for the

00:357th of June, and was believed to be travelling from Brisbane in Queensland through to Melbourne,

00:54being accompanied by a passenger.

00:56He was travelling in his black 2001 Toyota Land Cruiser 200 series, and that vehicle

01:04is a very distinctive vehicle.

01:06It's totally black with a bull bar, driving lights on the front, and above the windscreen

01:11there's some pink stickers written across the top of the windscreen.

01:17And we're appealing today for persons in the community that may have any information surrounding,

01:22by the sighting that vehicle from the time it entered New South Wales, or having any information

01:28around that vehicle.

01:29I can confirm today that we've seized that vehicle and that's being forensically tested.

01:35It's performing part of our investigation surrounding the circumstances and the death of Mr Ackers.

01:43The strike force of Ventum so far, through previous appeal that we've had, have received certain information from members of the public,

01:50which have led us to a number of lines of inquiry.

01:53Also in relation to the death of Mr Ackers, the initial results of the postmortem have suggested

01:59that he's been hit by a vehicle, and we're treating his death, as I said previously, as suspicious

02:05at this stage.

02:06Again, this is a public appeal for anyone who may have information that may be able to come

02:13forward and provide us with that information, no matter how small they believe it may be.

02:20And we're particularly interested in the movements of Mr Ackers from 2.30am on the 16th of June,

02:27early hours of the 16th of June, where we believe he left a service station on South East Street

02:36at Derilderie, and then continued south from Derilderie towards Finlay.

02:41And it's in this particular area that we're focusing our investigation at the moment, and

02:48we're trying to piece together the circumstances surrounding what happened after Mr Ackers left

02:54at Derilderie, up until when we were notified by members of the public that there was a

03:03person on the side of the road, 11km south of Derilderie.

03:07So that timeframe, and I'll reinforce this, that timeframe is roughly between 2.30am on

03:13the 16th of June, until we located Mr Ackers deceased at 12.35pm on Tuesday the 17th of June.

03:24So that requirement was the case last four hours come on Friday.

03:29So if you're wanting to place an opportunity, you don't feel the opportunity for others to

03:35see now without their problems and have a job.

03:38So um, this working was is within 15.30am on a 17th of June's small했는데.

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