Allegations
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I lost the power to resist, Louise Nicholas tells
court Rotorua woman Louise
Nicholas has told a High Court jury she had lost control and lost the power
to resist when she was taken into a Rotorua house, raped and sexually abused
by three policemen 20 years ago. In the High Court at
Auckland today Mrs Nicholas told the trial of the three policemen that she
had grave reservations about entering a police house in Rutland Street in
Rotorua. She had been picked up
by one of the men she has accused of raping and sexually abusing her, former
policeman Bradley Keith Shipton. He and another former
policeman, Robert Francis Schollum, and Assistant Police Commissioner Clint
Rickards have denied 20 charges of rape and sexual abuse in Rotorua in 1985
and 1986. The lawyer for
Rickards, John Haigh QC, began his cross-examination of Mrs Nicholas today. Mrs Nicholas told the
court she feared what would happen at Rutland Street after she had earlier
been abused at her Corlett Street flat. "The horror of the
time at Corlett Street, what had been happening at Corlett Street, knowing
that group sex was about to happen at Rutland Street, it was at that point I
knew I had no control. "I had lost all
control. I had no strength left to fight this. It had been taken from me and
taken from me a long time ago," Mrs Nicholas said. The trial is expected
to last three weeks. |