The Dominion Post
July 25 2003

Miscarriage of justice
Letter to the Editor (Abridged)
by John Welch (Picton)

Like several of your correspondents, I once held a naive view that the justice system would robustly reject nonsensical evidence against any accused person.

As the Christchurch Civic Creche case was in progress, I recall mounting alarm at the absurd nature of a lot of the evidence. There might well be entrenched attitudes on both sides, but I challenge any person of normal intelligence to read Lynley Hood's book, A City Possessed, and not realise at once that there has been a terrible miscarriage of justice.