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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
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
But the
general manager of human resources for the police, Wayne Annan,
said the couple are living in New