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Assistant police
commissioner Clint Rickards and two other men will go to trial in March
accused of the pack rape of Rotorua woman Louise Nicholas. The trial is to be
heard in the High Court at Auckland and is set down for three weeks. It will
follow four days of pre-trial applications, which are scheduled to be heard
in the same court from October 25. The accused, Clinton
John Tukotahi Rickards, Bradley Keith Shipton and Robert Francis Schollum
face a total of 20 charges of rape, indecent assault and unlawful sexual
connection. The allegations date
back to 1986 when the three were working as police officers in Rotorua. The
three accused have strongly denied the allegations with one of their lawyers
describing the case as being "at best, built on straw". The trial was moved
from Rotorua to Auckland. |
