The Christchurch Civic Creche Case
	News Reports - Main Index 2005 Index 2 (Apr-July)
	The Press April 6 2005 A City Shamed Letter to the Editor by John Blumsky, Waikuku The severe heart attack suffered by Peter Ellis at the weekend should be a poignant reminder to us all how seriously flawed some of our democratic systems are. Ellis’s inability to gain justice since his Civic Creche conviction some 10 years ago has sapped his resolve. That government agencies and their political masters have allowed this case to be shut down in a select committee for over two years is a disgrace and I am skeptical about its July completion. That all politicians have surrendered their integrity to an apathetic electorate is unconscionable. But perhaps more apt would be that Hood’s book A City Possessed should be retitled A City Shamed.