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Embattled Assistant
Police Commissioner Clint Rickards' son Willie Rickards will play rugby for
Southland this season. Willie, who lives with
his mother in Auckland, has signed with Rugby Southland for two years while
he studies at the Dunedin College of Education's Southland Campus and the
sport and recreation course at the Southern Institute of Technology. Rickards was a member
of the Auckland sevens team that competed at this year's national tournament
in Queenstown. Rickards was due to have arrived in Invercargill but has
stayed in Auckland to support his father during the three-week trial. Rugby Southland chief
executive Roger Clark said Rickards had been advised by his father to have a
fresh start in Southland after the trial. He is expected to turn
out for his new club team Woodlands within the next two weeks. wThe jury deliberating
on historic sex charges against Clint Rickards and two former police officers
yesterday retired for a second night without reaching a verdict. Rickards and former
police officers Brad Shipton and Bob Schollum face a total of 20 charges of raping
and sexually abusing Louise Nicholas in Rotorua in 1985 and 1986. |
