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Shipton, Schollum vs Jane Doe Page 1 - 2007 Trial of
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Suspended assistant police
commissioner Clint Rickards was today expected to speak in his own defence on
the latest sex charges against him. Rickards, 46, and former policemen
Brad Shipton, 48, and Bob Schollum, 54, have denied kidnapping and indecently
assaulting a 16-year-old girl in Rotorua between November 1983 and August
1984. The Crown was set to conclude its
case against the trio in the High Court in Auckland this morning. Afterward, Rickards was likely to
be called as the first witness for the defence. Lawyers for Shipton and Schollum
have not said whether their clients will give evidence int he trial. The alleged victim yesterday told
the court she was trying to make sure Rickards, Shipton and Schollum were
convicted, after "poor Louise Nicholas" lost her case. The three men were acquitted by a
High Court jury last March of the rape, sexual violation and indecent assault
of Mrs Nicholas when she was a Rotorua teenager in the 1980s. Schollum's lawyer Paul Mabey QC
yesterday asked the woman why there was no previous mention of her claims
Schollum threatened her after the incident. She said she was scared. |
