 The Townsville Bulletin reported that the identikit sketch matched a "former policeman", whose identity was subsequently confirmed during the 2002 coronial inquest into Jones's disappearance as being none other than Mervyn Henry Stevenson.Stevenson avoided prosecution and was eventually inducted into the Australian Stockman's Hall of Fame in 2001.He died of cancer on 16 December 2001 and was farewelled by a police guard of honour at his funeral in Townsville.