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Statement to the Parole Board Hearing,
Paparoa Prison,
5:00pm, Thursday, March 11, 1999.
By Peter Ellis
I would like to thank the Board for the opportunity to appear
here today and in particular for allowing both my mother and my counsel to be
present.
There are two reasons why I think it is important for me to be present today.
Firstly, because I wish to show my respect for the Board by personally
explaining my position regarding parole and secondly, because it gives me the
opportunity to say myself that which I have had to rely on others to say for
me for the last six years.
I cannot accept any Parole that you could offer me because the Board can only
release me as a guilty man. I am a human being and of course I very much want
my freedom, but I simply cannot accept it, if it is to be given, on the basis
that I am a guilty man.
I am not a guilty man. I am an innocent man.
Peter
Hugh McGregor Ellis
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