From: Patrick Ford ([email protected])
Subject: Re: WYSIWYG NEWS - 12 May, 2001
Newsgroups: soc.culture.new-zealand
Date: May 15, 2001

Brian Harmer wrote:
Trouble is, Jo, that a lot of people had similar "gut feeling" and inner certainty about Peter Ellis too ... depends who you listen to. People who take sides in that case are equally convinced of their rightness, no matter which side they are on.

I don't take any side in the Peter Ellis case. He may or may not be guilty. I do know however, that the evidence that convicted him was based on deliberate lies and fabrication by adults, unintentional lies and fabrication by children, and the deliberate concealment and suppression of evidence that would have harmed the prosecution case.