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Jury in third day of police rape case deliberations
by Nicola Boyes Jurors were today
starting a third day of deliberations in the rape case against Assistant
Police Commissioner Clint Rickards and former police colleagues Bob Schollum
and Brad Shipton. The jury considering
Louise Nicholas' rape allegations had been deliberating for almost 21 hours
in the High Court at Auckland when it adjourned last night about 8.45pm. Earlier yesterday the
jurors asked if they could have access to Justice Tony Randerson's summing-up
notes. While the family and
friends of the three accused have kept a vigil outside court room 12, Mrs
Nicholas has not been seen. Supporters of the defendants gathered again last
night. Mrs Nicholas alleges
that between September 1985 and December 1986 Shipton and Rickards visited
her Rotorua flat between six and 12 times uninvited for sex she did not
consent to. She also alleges that
in January 1986 Schollum picked her up while she was walking home from her
job at the BNZ Bank and took her to a police house where the trio took turns
raping her before indecently assaulting her with a police baton. |
