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Shipton, Schollum vs Jane Doe Page 1 - 2007 Trial of Rickards,
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The defence lawyer for a former
policeman facing an historical sexual assault complaint claims the
complainant kept in contact with the three accused after the alleged
incident. Brad Shipton, Bob Schollum and
suspended Assistant Police Commissioner Clint Rickards are on trial for
kidnapping and indecent assault dating back more than two decades. Shipton's defence lawyer Bill
Nabney claims the woman making the allegations kept in contact with Brad
Shipton for several years after the date of the alleged incident, as her new
phone number was found in his police notebook. Mr Nabney says in 1985, more
than a year after the alleged incident, the complainant went to the Rotorua
Police Station to see her then boyfriend who had been arrested, and when
denied access she asked Brad Shipton to help her see him. The woman says there is no way she
would have given her number to Shipton after what had happened, and says she
never saw Brad Shipton after the alleged indecent assault. |
