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Shipton, Schollum vs Jane Doe Page 7 - Further Reaction to Not
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Career over, surely Regardless of his acquittal, Clint
Rickards, in his arrogant, blustering interview outside the court after the
verdict, should have finished his career as a senior policeman. It is unacceptable from a man
whose former position requires restraint, and at least public respect for the
justice system of which he should be only a part, to question the competence
of the investigation, the validity of the decision to charge him and his
co-accused, and the reliability of the rape verdicts against Shipton and Schollum.
A little magnanimity towards his accusers might not have gone amiss, either. Royal treatment What a very privileged person
Clint Rickards has been -- $600,000 in wages while not working, free to
attend university to study law, and from appearances he has been able to lead
a life of personal indulgence. I wonder how other accused persons
feel when they read of Mr Rickards' royal treatment -- when they have had
perhaps only a menial amount to survive on. How would he feel? The heart-rending photo of Clint
Rickards and his daughter on the front page of Friday's Press raises an
interesting question. How would Rickards feel if, a few years from now, a
coterie of young, arrogant and utterly immoral police officers were treating
his daughter as nothing more than a sex object, to be used and abused and
threatened if she objected or complained? Rickards wants his old job back?
No self-respecting society would leave this man in charge of a primary school
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