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Louise Nicholas'
mother-in-law has told a rape trial in the High Court in Auckland that she
saw marked police cars parked outside her daughter-in-law's flat. Assistant police
commissioner Clint Rickards and former officers Brad Shipton and Bob Schollum
are on trial on charges of rape and sexual assault. Nicholas'
mother-in-law, Phyllis Nicholas, has told the court she was phoned by Louise
on three occasions on one day from her Rotorua flat, back in the mid 1980s. She says on two of
those occasions she went to the flat. She says she found a marked police car
parked in the driveway and on one of the visits two men came out of the
flat and got into the car. Phyllis Nicholas says
her daughter-in-law seemed upset and sick at the time but she didn't know her
well enough to ask her about it. Under cross examination
on Wednesday Louise Nicholas told the court she was abused by four other
police officers as a 13-year-old but when she complained nothing was done
about it. Nicholas also said that
following the alleged rapes by the three accused she didn't complain because
she thought no one would believe her. |
