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The
Christchurch Civic Creche Case |
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Convicted paedophile
Peter Ellis is applying for leave to appeal to the Privy Council in London
against his child abuse convictions. Ellis was released from
prison in 2000 after serving six and a half years of a 10 year sentence. Lawyer Judith
Ablett-Kerr QC says she has been trying to get permission for the appeal
since a parliamentary committee recommended last year that the attorney
general not oppose it. Ablett-Kerr says she is
filing the appeal without permission and will leave it to the attorney
general to decide what position he takes on the matter. She says her client is
disillusioned with the lack of parliamentary response on the issue. |
