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October 4, 2004

Rickards' $5,000 weekly pay "untrue"

Police say an article in a Sunday newspaper claiming the officer at the centre of pack-rape allegations and his partner are being paid to live and study in Sydney, are untrue.

Assistant Police Commissioner Clint Rickards was stood down on full pay in January after a Rotorua woman, Louise Nicholas, claimed he and two other officers raped her in the 1980s. 

The Herald on Sunday reported that Rickards and his girlfriend, Inspector Tania Eden, are being paid $5,000 a week while studying in Australia

But the general manager of human resources for the police, Wayne Annan, said the couple are living in New Zealand full time. He said Eden has returned to work in Auckland.