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The report on
allegations of ill-treatment at the army's former cadet school at Waiouru
will be delivered in August, Defence Minister Mark Burton said today. Retired High Court
Judge David Morris was due to report by the end of this month but ill-health
has forced an extension. Mr Burton said Mr
Morris was recovering at home from a serious heart condition. Mr Morris was appointed
in October last year to investigate the allegations. Some of the claims go
back to 1948. The inquiry was ordered
after former army communications officer Ian Fraser published a report on an
online news service alleging that cadets were subjected to assaults and abuse
at the cadet school. Reaction to the report
included hundreds of corroborating accounts from other former cadets. The terms of reference
for the inquiry include the investigation of any criminal offending at the
school from 1948 until it closed in 1991. |
