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A further High Court trial
relating to the conduct of police officers involved in allegations of
pack-rape is to take place in July. The High Court has lifted a
suppression order allowing media to report that a former Rotorua detective is
to face trial for conspiring to pervert the course of justice. John Dewar was head of the CIB in
the city at the time rape complainant Louise Nicholas first raised her case.
He is alleged to have mishandled her case. Assistant Police Commissioner
Clint Rickards and former officers Brad Shipton and Bob Schollum were last
year acquitted after a trial over the pack-rape allegation, and this week
were acquitted on similar charges relating to another woman. Mr Dewar's trial had been delayed
while the two rape trials were dealt with. |
