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The
Dominion Post
August 19 2003
Unspeakable outrage
Letter to the Editor
by Una Cargill (Waikanae)
Often, after
enormous personal sacrifice, we have had "crusaders" fighting to
right a wrong or battle a principle. I am confident that those who take up
the cudgels for Peter Ellis will eventually vindicate him.
Arthur Allan Thomas was tried and convicted of the murder of Harvey and
Jeanette Crewe. Four years later, after the ordering of a new trial by the
Court of Appeal, Thomas was again tried and convicted of those murders, in
the Supreme Court at Auckland.
In 1980, the Report of the Royal Commission to Inquire into the Circumstances
of the Convictions of Arthur Allan Thomas exonerated him. He received more
than $1 million, but money cannot right the wrongs and unspeakable anguish he
endured.
Like the Thomas case, I believe the Ellis court case to be an unspeakable
outrage.
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