Police sex trial: What the jury never knew (cut and paste)

(from the capitalist media: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/1/story.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10426475)

Two of the men today acquitted in today's police sex case are serving prison terms for the pack rape of a woman at Mt Maunganuui 17 years ago.

Former policemen Brad Shipton and Bob Schollum had their names suppressed during their July 2005 trials for the 1989 abduction and rape of the 20-year-old woman.

The victim said four men lured her into a hut on the pretext of having a lunch date with one of the men. Once there she was bound, raped, forced to perform oral sex and brutally violated.

The men maintained it was consensual group sex.

They were jailed for terms of between five-and-a-half and eight-and-a-half years.

Shipton and Schollum were also convicted of unlawful sexual connection and one was found guilty of a second rape. Both were acquitted of sexual violation with an object.

Businessman Peter Mana McNamara and fireman Warren Hales were also convicted of the rape but in April last year the Court of Appeal overturned Hale's conviction and ordered a retrial.

In November, Hales pleaded guilty to the woman's abduction and was sentenced to 18 months' prison and ordered to pay $10,000 in emotional harm reparation.