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Shipton, Schollum vs Jane Doe Page 1 - 2007 Trial of
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Suspended assistant police
commissioner Clint Rickards is testifying in the High Court in Auckland in
his defence against allegations of kidnapping and indecent assault. Rickards and former officers Bob
Schollum and Brad Shipton all deny the charges dating from Rotorua in the
1980s. Rickards is the first of the
defence witnesses to take the stand and denies he ever met the complainant
until last year. The defence argued if the woman
was assaulted, the complainant has simply got the wrong man and it is a case
of mistaken identity. The court heard Rickards had major
surgery in October 1983, and was in plaster from his thigh to his ankle for
several weeks, and on crutches for several weeks after that. This contradicted the complainant's
evidence that she met him several times at a local Cobb and Co restaurant and
police bar over this time. She never remembered seeing him in plaster,
crutches or hobbling. Rickards said he did not go out
over this time because movement was so difficult for him. |
