Otago Daily Times
April 6, 2004
Rape claim help plan
NZPA
Prime Minister Helen Clark said yesterday there had been approaches about help.
"We think it is desirable they are assisted with representation. We are
currently considering what the best way of achieving that is," she said at
her post-cabinet press conference.
"In principle, it is important that people whose complaints have in effect
sparked an inquiry are assisted with representation."
The Government set up the inquiry to investigate historic allegations raised by
Rotorua woman Louise Nicholas, who says she was raped in a police house in
Rotorua in the late 1980s.
Two other women have made similar claims which are also expected to be
investigated.
The inquiry is being carried out by High Court Judge Bruce Robertson and former
senior public servant Dame Margaret Bazley.