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Allegations
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Assistant Police Commissioner
Clint Rickards will give evidence in his own defence on historical sex abuse
charges. Rickards is expected to
tell a High Court jury in Auckland tomorrow, that he had consensual sex twice
with Rotorua woman Louise Nicholas. In his opening address
this afternoon, defence counsel John Haigh QC told the jury the environment
surrounding the alleged offending in the mid-1980s appeared to be a massive
exercise in sexual freedom. But he says that does
not mean Clint Rickards is guilty of any criminal wrongdoing. He says Louise
Nicholas' evidence is either a series of calculated lies, or based on
delusional recollections. |
