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	Newswire February 19 2007; 16:33 Court Hears Evidence From Complainant In Police Rape Trial The High Court in Auckland has heard that a woman was screaming and struggling as three police officers handcuffed her and indecently assaulted her. Assistant police commissioner Clint Rickards and former officers Brad Shipton and Bob Schollum deny charges of kidnapping and indecent assault. The Crown, in opening its case, said the woman who was 16 at the time was in a consensual relationship with Brad Shipton. The court heard that the woman was drinking with the three accused and two other men at a Rotorua house, one night in the 1980s. Mark Zarifeh for the Crown says she was carried into a bedroom struggling and screaming, was handcuffed, and indecently assaulted.