The Christchurch Civic Creche Case

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1999 Jan-June



Sunday Star Times
March 21 1999

Ellis guilty
Letter to the Editor
by B Taylor, Christchurch

A MAN is innocent until proven guilty. Surely then a man imprisoned for a crime is guilty until proven innocent?

More and more it is creeping into the press (March 14) that Peter Ellis is innocent. How do you think this feels to his child victims?

This man has been through the due process of the law and was found guilty.

Until the same due process has found him innocent he remains guilty. Let us not make Peter Ellis into a hero or a martyr until solid facts indicate this is so.