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The Court of Appeal hearing for
convicted paedophile Peter Ellis will be held
during the week beginning July 5. It was originally set down for May
31 in Announcing the new date last
night, the court's registrar said it was to accommodate the widened scope of
the appeal allowed by Governor-General Sir Michael Hardie
Boys. There was a need for evidence and submissions to be prepared,
"making it necessary for the hearing previously fixed for May 31 to be
vacated". Ellis's lawyer Judith Ablett Kerr,
QC, is understood to have opposed the delay. Ellis's mother, Lesley, has said
that any delay would be hurtful. When someone had told her son that
a small delay after his long stint in jail would not mean much, he had
replied: "Why don't you come in here and spend it for me?" Ellis, convicted in 1993 on 13
child-abuse charges, is, if the appeal fails, due to leave prison in
February, when he has served two-thirds of a 10-year sentence. |
