The Christchurch Civic Creche Case

News Reports Index

1999 July-Dec



Waikato Times
December 3 1999

Ellis meeting sought
NZPA

The lawyer representing convicted child sex offender Peter Ellis is seeking a meeting with Prime Minister-elect Helen Clark and the new minister of justice. Dunedin QC Judith Ablett Kerr yesterday said she would pursue Ellis' application for a pardon and royal commission of inquiry with the new coalition Government. Ellis, 40, is due to be released from prison in February, where he is serving a 10-year sentence on charges relating to indecencies against children at Christchurch's civic creche. In October the Court of Appeal dismissed his second appeal against conviction.