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The
Christchurch Civic Creche Case |
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Convicted Christchurch
Civic Creche child abuser Peter Ellis will have to wait to find out if he
will be freed pending a rare second appeal. The Court of Appeal
ruled yesterday that the appeal, made possible after the intervention of
Governor-General Sir Michael Hardie Boys, would be before five judges at the
end of May. An application for
bail, made at the hearing in Wellington yesterday, would be determined
"within a day or two", the court said. Ellis had a first
appeal against conviction dismissed in 1994, but gained his second chance
after Sir Michael's referral. His 10-year term for 16
child abuse offences comprises one sentence of four years, followed by two
concurrently of three years and 2 1/2 years, and another of three years. The court was told he
had fully served the first two and the third would end automatically in
February 2000. Ellis
has refused parole because it would be an acknowledgment of guilt.
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