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Louise Nicholas says she
knew she was going to be raped when she was taken to a police house twenty
years ago. The Rotorua woman is
continuing to give evidence at the trial of Assistant Police Commissioner
Clint Rickards, and his former police colleagues, Brad Shipton and Bob Schollum,
on the historical sex abuse charges. Mrs Nicholas is being
cross examined by John Haigh QC, Clint Rickard's lawyer. He has been questioning
her about the incident in which she alleges all three of the accused raped
her. He asked her if she
felt so conditioned, that she went like a lamb to the slaughter. Mrs Nicholas
replied: "I already told you, there was nothing I could do." Mr Haigh has now raised
the evidence of a woman who says she can recall a time when she and Mrs
Nicholas had group sex involving at least two of the accused. Mr Haigh says the woman
will tell the court Mrs Nicholas was 'certainly not saying no'. Louise Nicholas replied
that the woman was never present when she had what she says was'
non-consensual' sex with Rickards and co-accused Brad Shipton. She says the evidence
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