Louise Nicholas, who took the three men to court on rape charges last year, was in the court for the verdicts this afternoon. She was there in support for the complainant, who has name suppression, she said. Asked what she thought of verdict she said: "We did our best. We did our best. We did our very best. The justice system has let us down again".
Clint Rickards, Bob Schollum and Brad Shipton were on on trial for raping a 16 year old girl with a bottle in the 1980s. All three were police officers at the time of the attack.
This woman is not the only woman who was raped by these men. Last year these three men were all charged with many counts of rape on Louise Nicholas. The jury eventually found the men 'not guilty', but in the media it was Louise Nicholas's behaviour rather than the defendants, that was put on trial. The injustice of this case was so blatant that many New Zealanders broke suppression orders by giving out leaflets or forwarding e-mails that contained information that was not available to the jury. Those suppression orders are still in place and make it difficult to discuss the injustices of the trial last year.
What is clear is that these three men, and many other police officers, used their power to rape women and girls. The young women they abused had no-one they could turn to for help. Many people knew of this abuse while it was going on, but did nothing. While convictions for a small number of these police officers is a step forward, we have a much larger problem ahead of us. Every system that allowed these men to rape with impunity for a decade is still in place. Police power and a misogynist rape culture mean that this could happen again, and probably is.

There have been several previous indymedia articles about thise case:
Police Rape Verdict is a Crime
Louise Nicholas - we believe you
New Charges Vindicate Louise Nicholas
Scumbag cops going back to court for another rape
Christchurch activists found guilty of breaching suppression orders
Other sources of information include Aotearoa Cafe, which had a discussion thread on the subject. Capitalism Bad; Tree Pretty has extensive discussion including a summary of the previous case.
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No,, this is take up arms and dish out justice to police and lowlife scumbag 'judges", or enjoy more rapes.
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To you New Zealanders, get up and see who is screwing you daily.
To the Police, my respect that for first time I have seen you going all the way to secure a conviction You know that they were Guilty.I hope that now you can let them go from the force, and in the future you DO not keep Cops in Full pay while they are charged and in the courts.Its the taxpayers money,ummh.
Dont forget. the three rapist have been shown plenty and their faces are now known well. Girls and Boys keep well away from cops at Night!!
A shameful Day in NZ history!!
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Smash the state. Smash capitalism. No more police brutality and rape.
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* apart from chicks who don't count sorry.
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In the wake of all this, I've been trying to find out what the legal definition of rape is in NZ, and what constitutes consent. Does anyone know? Or know where I can find out?! I've been googling my brains out for an hour trying to find information on date rape, rape legislation, consent, etc. and the best I could find was this recommendation in 2004 to expand the definition of rape. www.nz-lawsoc.org.nz/general/submissions/CrimesAmend(No2).htm
But I can't even seem to find out where this recommendation went! If anyone has some insight here, please share it.
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STOP THE FORCED DRUGGING AND COERCION OF WOMEN BY THE WOMENS REFUGE and their agency WEAV!
SAVE OUR SUPPLEMENTS!
For WEAV and those badmouthing me to the public with your own incompetance at answering a phone call in regard to the suitability of your anger mangement courses in which in fact are extremely poor! You have no right to call anyone on my behalf you abused my rights to privacy and accessed my personal information without my permission.
Stop ridculing my relationship with my mother and your ridculous accusations at me of domestic violence I have no interest in your services or telling the public to tell me to take your drugs if I am in my mothers company. That is none of your business. Stop annoying my neighbours and minding my business I am not associated with you or your criminal harrassment!
Claire
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Stop your attempts to mind my family business and go home to your ratholes!
It is a womens right to choose her own healthcare not drug addiction or tranquillzers especially when the use of psychological abuse of women is so stereotypical of the the refuge in order to force women to take drugs. I am not your victim you are interferring with my access to shops, cafes and my computer repairs wtih your interference in my private business.
My home is not a womens refuge or a mental health centre stop your abuse of my privacy!
Claire
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15.5.2007
Dear IMC
in or around the years 1989 -1990 ( possibly 1991) my wife recalls being raped in Sunnyside Hospital (now called Hillmorton) located in Christchurch. She is not the author of this letter as the events are too traumatic for her to talk about.
What I remember is this; she was a patient in Ferguson one ward at the time. I distinctly remember, the ward and it's position on the grounds. One day in either 1989 or possibly 1990 I arrived to visit her at that ward. The kiosk is situated in the middle of the main corridor of that ward. Upon approaching the nursing station or kiosk I was confronted by my wife. She said this to me: 'I was raped last night and I'm putting in a complaint'.
She was in an agitated and upset mood. She had a dressing gown on. At a guess the time may have been somewhere between 1 -1.30pm. This is speculation, but the time I usually visited each day. The time, place, and circumstances are stated as precisely as is possible.
Immediately after she said she was raped I suggested we get an independent doctor to carry out an medical examination. However, this idea was not followed through.
From memory, nothing further happened after we discussed a medical examination. Years later, my wife relayed to me in more detail the circumstances of the alleged rape. She claimed a Maori psychiatric nurse had taken her into a room, held a cloth or towel over her face, then proceeded to rape her. This exact story was repeated by her to me on a number of occasions, but has become reluctant to talk about it since.
Regards
(contact e-mail is germanideology (at) hotmail.com )
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