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The defence case has
begun to emerge in the trial of a top police officer and two former policemen
on historical sex charges. Complainant Louise
Nicholas has been cross-examined by lawyers for the three accused, Assistant
Police Commissioner Clint Rickards, and his former police colleagues, Brad
Shipton and Bob Schollum. It has been put to
Louise Nicholas that she told police in 1994 in a signed statement that she
had consensual sex with the accused Bob Schollum after a party in Rotorua. Mrs Nicholas denies
ever willingly having sex with any of the men. Paul Maybe QC, lawyer
for Schollum, has put the statement to Mrs Nicholas. Louise Nicholas has
replied that in the statement she must have said it, but she does not recall. It has also emerged a
former flatmate of Mrs Nicholas will tell the court the two women had
consensual group sex with at least two of the accused men. |
