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This page last updated July 29 2007
2007-0728 - NZ Herald - Camp
leader preyed on boys for 14 years
by Juliet Rowan - Neville Collins considered himself "the face" of St John,
but this week any veneer of respectability the former camp leader and
ambulance officer may have had disappeared when he was found guilty of years
of sexual abuse of boys……. But while Collins is now behind bars awaiting
sentence, police fear some of his crimes may have gone unpunished. "We
believe there could well be other victims out there," said Detective
Mark Duytshoff, who has been compiling information about Collins for several
years. "If they do come forward, we will look into it."
2007-0726 - NZ Herald - Man
guilty on sex charges
A former
Auckland camp leader and St John ambulance officer has been found guilty of
sex crimes against boys. Neville Cyril Collins, a 44-year-old father of two,
was last night found guilty of 37 charges of sexual offending and assault
against six boys in the 1980s and 1990s
2007-0724 - NZ Herald -
Sleeping disorder evidence to be heard in sex-abuse trial
A sleeping
disorder will play a crucial part in the defence of a former Auckland camp
leader accused of sex crimes against boys, a court has heard……….The High
Court at Rotorua heard yesterday that the 44-year-old married father of two
suffers from a sleeping disorder that involves thrashing, sleep-walking and
holding complete conversations in his sleep
2007-0717 - Stuff - Sex abuse
victim spent 20 years trying to forget, court told
The
alleged victim of sexual abuse by a former Boys Brigade leader and ambulance
officer has told a court he spent 20 years trying to forget what happened. …..Collins'
first alleged victim said he was about 10-years-old when he was abused by
Collins while on outings. He said he had spent the last 20 years trying to
forget. "Some things are very very difficult to forget," he said
2007-0717 - Nelson Mail -
Abuse still haunts victim
Father-of-two
Neville Cyril Collins, 44, went on trial in the High Court at Rotorua
yesterday on 37 charges of indecent assault, sexual violation, assault,
attempted indecent assault and performing an indecent act on six boys between
1984 and 1998. The abuse allegedly happened at Boys Brigade camps in Auckland
and around the North Island
2007-0717 - NZ Herald - Former
youth leader on sex-abuse counts
The trial
of Neville Cyril Collins, a former St John ambulance officer and leader of
the brigade, has commenced in the High Court at Rotorua. Collins has denied
37 charges relating to alleged abuse of six boys between 1984 and 1998
The abuse
allegedly occurred at Boys Brigade camps in Auckland and other parts of the
North Island, a house in Cambridge where Collins lived with his wife and
children, in his car and by public roads, and at an outdoor training camp he
ran called Exercise Novice Warrior. Crown prosecutor Rob Ronayne said only
two of the victims knew each other, but their stories of abuse had
"strikingly similar features".
Collins,
wearing a black suit and blue tie, sat stony-faced throughout yesterday's
proceedings, answering "not guilty" in a clear voice as each of the
37 charges was put to him. "His position is that none of this
occurred," his lawyer, Matthew Ward-Johnson, told the court. Mr
Ward-Johnson said the credibility of the witnesses was a central issue. "These
charges are all largely historic and care must be taken by you not just to
take them at face value."
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