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The
Christchurch Civic Creche Case |
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The Government has announced it is holding a Ministerial Inquiry
into the Peter Ellis case. The inquiry will be asked to recommend whether Ellis should be
granted a pardon. Ellis was released from prison last month after serving seven
years for abusing children in his care at the Christchurch Civic Creche. Now Justice Minister Phil Goff has ordered an inquiry to look at
the reliability of the children''s evidence. Goff says the inquiry will look at whether there are any matters
which give rise to doubts about the assessment of children''s evidence to an
extent which would render the convictions of Ellis unsafe and which would
warrant a grant of a pardon." Retired Chief Justice Sir Thomas Eichelbaum will conduct the
inquiry and will report to the Government by the end of August.
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