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WYSIWYG News Police have reopened the other
historical rape case specifically cited for attention by the Commission of
Inquiry. They are reinvestigating Kaitaia
woman Judith Garrett's allegation she was raped by a local police officer in
1988. Charges were never laid against
Constable Timothy Ogle, after Ms Garrett complained he lured her into the
Kaitaia police station one night and raped her. He was discharged from the police,
but no further action was taken. Ms Garrett alleges a cover-up. She unsuccessfully went to the
Appeal Court several years later, even though the judge stated he believed a
rape had occurred. Her daughter Katherine Sheffield
was murdered in 1994, shortly after Ms Garrett took the civil case over her
rape complaint. Ms Sheffield's murder is also being reinvestigated. Ms Garrett and Rotorua complainant
Louise Nicholas are specifically named in the terms of reference for the
Commission of Inquiry into |