Gerald Hope wants to meet Scott Watson – the man convicted of murdering his daughter.

“I’d like to meet him – if he’d meet me?” Gerald Hope explains in “Ben & Olivia The Search for Truth” (screening TV3, Inside New Zealand).

And he knows exactly what he would say.

“Scott, you convince me that you’re innocent and I’ll back you.”

“If I’m convinced, and I believe you’re sincere, I’ll back you – that you’re a wrongly convicted New Zealand.”

Gerald Hope knows that society has a resolution in the disappearance of his daughter Olive and her friend Ben Smart. Scott Watson was convicted of both murders and has been locked up for 17 years. But now, four and a half years after they vanished, Jerald Hope feels he’s no closer to the truth about what happened that terrible New Year’s Eve.