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Three News NZPA
Name suppression was lifted today
on Peter Maxwell Stewart, the prominent Canterbury businessman convicted on
seven charges of historic child sexual abuse at a High Court trial two weeks
ago. Stewart, 61, was to be sentenced
today but that has been delayed to February 12, mainly because a pre-sentence
report has not yet been completed, Court News website reported. Justice Graham Panckhurst was set
to consider a bid for continued name suppression when Stewart's counsel,
Jonathan Eaton, said it seemed Stewart's name as the "prominent
Canterbury businessman" was so widely known in Christchurch that
suppression was no longer sought. Reasons advanced earlier that
lifting suppression would affect the business interests of other family
members had been addressed in recent days. "I have clear instructions
not to seek a final order for suppression of name and invite Your Honour to
lift the order," he said. Stewart is a member of a
well-known Canterbury family with business interests as a farmer, company
director, and charter boat operator. At the two-week trial, the jury
found the man guilty on two charges of inducing a girl under 12 to do an
indecent act, three counts of indecent assault, one of sodomy, and one of
rape. The offences dated back more than 30 years. |
