Sunday Star Times
October 31, 1999
Ellis dismay
by Cheryl Greenfield,
Full marks to Sandra Coney for considering the question: "When will it be
over for the children?" This is the first media consideration of the other
side of the story I have read.
Like Coney I have become dismayed and then very concerned by the positive
attention given to Peter Ellis by the media. Is society
wanting to bury heads in the sand so much, it repeatedly ignores the
decisions made by the courts?
It is a black mark against the media and the adults of this nation that we have
such an appalling image of children that we take Ellis's side in this. I
challenge the Sunday Star-Times to stand up for the children and their families
who have been through a hell far worse than Ellis or his colleagues have ever
gone through.
Sunday Star Times
October 31, 1999
Distorted case
by Pat Booth,
Sandra Coney (October 24) cites the Peter Ellis trial as "held up to more
scrutiny than any other court proceedings held in
In criticising the Ellis campaign for a commission of inquiry, she asks:
"What superior powers does a Royal Commission have that the Court of
Appeal does not?"
It is a matter of significant legal history that a Commission of Inquiry into
the Thomas convictions considering the issues without the prejudices and
preconceptions of other hearings, identified the false
evidence which had so distorted the earlier Thomas hearings.
The case against Ellis has also been distorted and warrants a full and new
judicial inquiry.