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Allegations
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The Rotorua District
Court begins hearing the case against three men facing sex charges in
relation to allegations by local woman Louise Nicholas. Former police officers
Brad Shipton and Bob Schollum, and Assistant Police Commissioner Clint
Rickards are before the court. The depositions hearing is set down for two
weeks and is subject to a complex set of suppression orders. The charges centre
around events said to have occurred in Rotorua in 1986 when Louise Nicholas
was 18. Shipton, Schollum and Rickards are pleading not guilty. The nature of the
charges against them is suppressed, as is the evidence of some witnesses. The media has been
banned from recording, filming or taking photographs inside the court during
the hearing. |
