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A compensation claim
from three girls wrongfully jailed for aggravated robbery will not be lodged with
the Government till at least February, the girls' lawyer, Gary Gotlieb, says.
Teangarua
"Lucy" Akatere and Tania Mayze Vini, both 17, and McCushla
"Krishla" Priscilla Fuataha, 16, had their joint conviction for
aggravated robbery quashed by the Court of Appeal at Auckland in October.
They spent seven months in prison and are seeking hundreds of thousands of
dollars in compensation. The Crown's main
witness, a 13-year-old girl, retracted her evidence by affidavit after their
conviction. She claimed she and the three older girls committed a 1999 attack
on a 16-year-old girl in Auckland. The schoolgirl was thumped and kicked, her
head was banged against a tree stump, she was cut and robbed of $10. |
