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No charges will be laid
against a police officer accused of raping a Christchurch woman 18 years ago.
An investigation was
launched into the allegation against the Bay of Plenty officer after former
prostitute Niki Koster made the rape complaint last year. She complained to
police after Louise Nicholas went public with allegations she was pack-raped
and violated with a baton by three police officers in Rotorua in 1986. Koster told The Press
she was raped after drinking with officers in Rotorua on the night in 1987.
She claimed she was taken to a Rotorua house to sleep off a night of heavy
drinking and woke to find an officer having sex with her. Too drunk and
scared to fight him off, her pleas for him to stop went unheeded, she
claimed. "I suppressed it
for a lot of years and now I want to talk about it. I feel I have a story.
You don't know who you can trust – even if they have got a uniform on,"
she said. "The Rotorua police was like a gang. Just the way they acted.
It was quite scary." Koster was working at a
massage parlour in Mount Maunganui, Chances R, in 1987 when the alleged
incident happened. She had earlier been arrested and charged for possession
of cannabis. Bay of Plenty police
District Commander Gary Smith said the investigation into Koster's claim had
been completed and no charges laid. The officer concerned, who remains in the
police, was interviewed as part of the investigation. "The Crown
solicitor at Christchurch reviewed the investigation and recommended that no
charges be brought. Crown Law in Wellington ... concurred with (the
recommendation)," he said. |
