The Christchurch Civic Creche Case

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1999 Jan-June



Sunday Star Times
March 28 1999

Trial a circus
Letter to the Editor
by Andrea Morris

To assume a man is innocent until proven guilty as B Taylor suggests (March 21) is rather naive.

The mass hysteria provoked in society and the media when the word paedophilia is uttered ensures the noose has been knotted long before the jury delivers its verdict.

How anyone can call the circus that Peter Ellis endured "due process of the law" is beyond me.