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Shipton, Schollum vs Jane Doe Page 1 - 2007 Trial of Rickards,
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The woman who has accused a
suspended top cop and two former policemen of indecent assault claims the men
laughed at her as she tried to fight them off. Suspended Assistant Police
Commissioner Clint Rickards, Bob Schollum and Brad Shipton are accused of
kidnapping and indecently assaulting the woman, who was 16 at the time, in
Rotorua in the mid 1980's. The complainant says on the night
of the alleged incident she was in a house with five policemen, including the
three accused. She says Shipton, who she was dating at the time, asked her to
have sex with all the men, but she refused. He then said, "she is not going
to come willingly." The woman says she was then picked up and carried to
a bedroom where she was pinned down by Shipton, handcuffed to a bed and
indecently assaulted with a bottle. She says it was all a joke to the men,
and Bob Schollum told her not to tell anyone or she and her family would
suffer for it. The lawyer for Clint Rickards says
the woman changed her story after talking to police. Under cross examination,
John Haigh QC asked the woman why she had originally told police she was in a
sexual relationship with Rickards for six months, but later said she had
never had intercourse with him. The woman says police misinterpreted her to
begin with and that is not what she meant to say. Mr Haigh says the woman's story is
not consistent, the incident never took place and claims she did not even
know his client. |
