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This page last updated May 26 2008
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George Gwaze
Dignified;Innocent
Detective Malcolm Johnston
Guilty of leading
an incompetent investigation
Charlene Makaza
Victim of AIDS
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This
site condemns the sloppy police investigation, and unnecessary persecution of
George
Gwaze, who was charged with the rape and murder of his niece.
Fortunately the jury quickly rejected the allegations, and the family could
at last begin to put their lives together again.
The police investigation, led by Detective Inspector Malcolm Johnston
was over almost as soon as it had begun. The police, had within days informed
the public that the girl had suffered an horrific sexual assault, and had
been suffocated, and not died from natural causes. There is no evidence that
the police even began to consider any other possibility. The police were
wrong in every way.
In
an astounding display of arrogance and racial bigotry, the police spent time
investigating “African beliefs about sex, including the myth that sex with a virgin
could cure Aids”.
One
may actually question who were the “savages” in this unprofessional
investigation: George Gwaze and his family, who endured police bigotry with
dignity, or the “White New Zealand Police beliefs about sex, including the
myth that an horrific sexual assault is far more likely a cause of death than
illness.”?
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This site has serious
concerns
relating to this case:
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The obsession with sexual abuse in
Nw Zealand has reached the point that those working in the medical and
counselling industries will too quickly make definitive diagnoses of sexual
abuse, if there is a remote possibility that may have occurred.
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The police may add the Gwaze
investigation to a long line of sloppy investigations characterised by
police:
a. Forming a belief extremely
quickly about what may have occurred (perhaps with an over eagerness to
demonstrate how skilled they are?).
b. Immediately closing their minds
to any other possibility
c. Hence their investigations are
only concerned with obtaining evidence to confirm their newly found
beliefs.
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This site endorses the call from
high profile lawyer Barry Hart that a Commission of Inquiry is required to
consider and make improvements to police investigations.
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George Gwaze and his family
deserve a sincere apology from the highest levels of the police for the
police incompetence demonstrated in this case, combined with adequate and
substantial compensation for what they have endured.
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Surely a detective must have decided to
leave his brain at home when he is willing to believe that a man could have
committed a serious sexual assault and also murder by suffocation of his ten
year old niece, while his 20 year old daughter was sleeping inches away?
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