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Shipton, Schollum vs Jane Doe Page 1 - 2007 Trial of Rickards,
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The woman who has accused an
assistant police commissioner and two former officers of indecent assault has
continued to give evidence in the High Court in Clint Rickards, Bob Schollum and
Brad Shipton are on trial on charges of kidnapping and indecent assault in
Rotorua in the mid 1980s. Cross-examining the woman on
Wednesday morning, lawyers for Shipton and Schollum focussed on details about
how her evidence has changed since she first spoke to police in 2004. This included how she got to the
Rotorua house where she alleges she was sexually assaulted with a liquor
bottle. The defence also focussed on how
Schollum had told her she must not tell anyone otherwise the safety of her
and her family could be in jeopardy, something she had failed to tell police
in her first conversation with them. The lawyer for Schollum, Paul
Mabey QC, accused the woman of embellishing her story to impress the jury. She was also asked how she had no
significant physical injuries that required her to see a doctor if she was
handcuffed during the incident, so violently assaulted and had put up such a
fight. The woman said she has crystal
clarity now about much of the crucial detail, but when police called her four
years ago it was very difficult to recall incidents from 23 years ago. |
