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Mauri Pacific Party Rana Waitai, Law and
Justice Spokesman for Mauri Pacific says time is
approaching for another parole appearance for Peter Ellis who having been convicted
of various sexual abuse offences in the notorious Christchurch Creche, is in the seventh year of his sentence. When last I visited Peter Ellis he was amazed
that no other Member of Parliament had bothered to visit him. I have absolute belief in his innocence, and he incidently, is the only one of the numerous "Trial
by Television Victims" that I have ever considered to be innocent. He was the victim of a sexual and ritial abuse hysteria that for a while took possession of
the public policy making process in the early 1990s. Even the Justice system and the Police took leave
of their good judgement for a short while. The Department of Social Welfare, which I find
fairly suss at anytime, went even more extreme and so did the Accident
Compensation Commission with it's generous victim
handouts on the skinniest of information. Peter Ellis must be pardonned
and compensated for his time in prison. The problem is that the Justice appeal processes
will only consider material that was early presented to them and the glaring
and disgraceful anomalies that were never put to a jury seem to be of no
interest to the decision makers. Practices occurred in the Christchurch Creche case that would never have been contemplated
previously, and which would never be contemplated today. I have no doubt that Peter Ellis will refuse any
parole bar that which implies his total innocence. He must be pardoned. |
