October 4 2004
Rickards study claims denied
Police today denied
claims the former Waikato police chief at the centre of pack-rape allegations
is studying at a university in
The police general
manager of human fesources, Wayne Annan,
said Clint Rickards and his partner Tania Eden had contacted him in the wake of
a Sunday newspaper story to say claims made in it were not true.
Assistant Commissioner
Rickards has been stood down since January after Rotorua woman Louise Nicholas
alleged he and former police officers Brad Shipton and Bob Schollum raped her
in the 1980s.
The three men deny the
claim.
Inspector
Police said suggestions
in yesterday's story she was told to take stress leave were completely untrue.