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Convicted paedophile Peter Ellis
appeared before the parole board yesterday, but did not speak. Lesley Ellis said her son, 40,
serving a 10-year sentence for abusing children at Ellis' lawyer Judith Ablett-Kerr
answered questions on his behalf during the 30-minute hearing. Afterwards,
she released details of Ellis' written statement. "I cannot accept any parole
that you could offer me because the board could only release me as a guilty
man," he said. "I'm not a guilty man, I am an innocent man." Ellis has twice been refused bail
pending a Court of Appeal hearing in May. The hearing is the result of a
petition to the Governor-General requesting a pardon. His first appeal was
dismissed in 1994, but he gained a rare second appeal. |
