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Assistant Police Commissioner
Clint Rickards has pleaded not guilty to indecently assaulting Louise
Nicholas with a police baton. The trial of Rickards
and two former police colleagues, Bob Schollum and former detective Brad
Shipton, on historical sex abuse charges has begun in Auckland. Justice Randerson has
lifted suppression orders which until today prevented the media from
reporting the nature of the allegations. The trio face a total
of 20 sex charges, eight of them representative, relating to a period of five
months in 1985 and 1986. They include two
charges against all three of the men of indecently assaulting Mrs Nicholas
with a police baton. Ms Nicholas says
Rickard and Shipton also had sex "many times" with her against her
will in her own home and that they a took her to another house where she was
raped by all three men. She says she did not
complain at the time because they were police officers and she was afraid of
them. |
