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Page 13 - Trial Week 2 2006

 




Newstalk ZB
March 22 2006; 14:08

Rickards says rape claims are lies

Assistant police commissioner Clint Rickards says Rotorua rape complainant Louise Nicholas is lying.

Rickards is giving evidence in his own defence at his trial over Mrs Nicholas' historical sex abuse allegations at the High Court in Auckland.

Before a packed public gallery, including his partner of 14 years, Clint Rickards has admitted having consensual sex twice with Louise Nicholas.

He says on one of those occasions he had sex with her flatmate as well.

He says while he is not proud of that now, as he was a young married constable with two children at the time, they were happy, jovial occasions.