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The
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What a strange letter
from Tighe Instone (August 25). She says that I was
"employing that particular book" (A City Possessed, by Lynley Hood) to support my published
assertion that Peter Ellis was a victim of hysteria. I quoted directly from
Hood's recent statements, not her book. I support Hood's book,
along with nearly all the independent reviewers, including a previous head of
psychology at Auckland University, Senior Professor Michael Corballis. I base this on several
very detailed independent analyses of the forensic interviews, the sequence
of events, and my interviews with prosecution expert witness Dr Karen Zelas
and a forensic interviewer. Sociologists doctors
Hill (Victoria University) and Newbold (Canterbury University) agree there
was a kind of a witch-hunt, finding many historic parallels. Masson's and Davies'
review of Hood gave little weight to the probative weight of the
"evidence" and the quality of the subsequent appeal processes. |
