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16-31 March 2005

 




Bay of Plenty Times
March 17 2005

Brad Shipton faces charges



Former detective and city councillor Brad Shipton faces charges for offences alleged to have happened almost 20 years ago involving Rotorua woman Louise Nicholas.

Shipton, 46, appeared in Tauranga District Court yesterday with car salesman and former police sergeant Robert Francis Schollum, 52.

A third man, suspended police Assistant Commissioner Clinton John Rickards, appeared briefly in Auckland District Court yesterday and entered no pleas to the charges he faces.

The trio were arrested yesterday - more than a year after police acted on allegations made by Ms Nicholas about alleged actions