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This page last updated July 14 2008
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Possible miscarriages of justice
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This site does not claim that
these men are all innocent, but does
have significant concerns about general or specific aspects of their
convictions
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 Brent Savage
July
2 2008
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 Roger Moloney
June
25 2008
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 Peter Stewart
Dec
7 2007
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 Neville
Collins
July
26 2007
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 Hiran
Fernando
Oct
12 2006
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 Shipton, Schollum, McNamara
July 5 2005
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 Graham
Cleghorn
Feb
17 2004
New Zealander in Cambodia
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Allegations
(Or completed cases not yet
documented)
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2008 - Prominent rugby player -
Isaac Boss
Allegations
of rape made April 2008
2008 - Prominent rugby league player
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Michael Crockett
Allegations of rape, facing trial
2008 - South Island Police Officer
Not Guilty, now facing employment related
charges
2007-2008 - Feilding School
Principal -
Tihirau Shepherd
Allegations from three complainants relating to alleged incidents in
1990 and 2007. Shepherd says that he
is “innocent of all wrong doing”.
2007 - Waikato ex police officer
40 year old woman makes historical allegations of child abuse against her
uncle.
Trial July 2007 - No verdict; Retrial ordered
2007 - Dargaville Teacher - Richard
Calder
Charged with indecent assault on a child under 16, relating to incidents on
January 24 2007.
Next hearing July 2007
2007 - Gisborne Teacher - Stephen
Shone
Charged with sex offences relating to five different girls aged between
12 and 16, that occurred in different places. Next
hearing July 30 2007
2007 - Manawatu Teacher
A female teacher aid has been suspended after allegedly supplying alcohol
and making sexual comments. The
School Board is investigating
2006 - Prominent Northland man
Retrial ordered
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Innocent
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This site endorses the verdicts
of the courts, and also considers that a number of these men should never
have been charged.
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 English rugby players
July
10 2008
Trial by media; Exonerated by judge
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 George Gwaze
May
21 2008
Lawyer calls for inquiry into police
investigation; Racism involved?
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 Aaron Farmer
April 26 2008
Wrongly Imprisoned, exonerated
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 Tea Ropati
Jan
31 2008
psychotherapy assisted memories
Lawyer angry that case went to court
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 Russell Thompson
Nov
30 2007
The danger of teaching
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 Rickards, Shipton, Schollum vs “Jane Doe”
Mar
1 2007
She “didn’t notice” the plaster cast
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 Tim Ogle vs Judith
Garrett
Nov
8 2006
The NZ police witchhunt
Lawyer angry that case went to court
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 Rickards, Shipton, Schollum
vs
Louise Nicholas
Mar
31 2006
admitted previous false accusationr
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 Kelvin
Powell
Aug
10 2005
The NZ police witchhunt
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 Michael Neville
Dec 2 2004
The danger of teaching
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2006 -
Wellington Teacher
Accused by 16yr old - Case thrown out by judge before jury
deliberation - "impossible"
2004 - (Judge) Tony
Christiansen
Accused; Not charged; Accuser ordered
to pay costs
1998 - (Teacher) Dr John Edgar
Emphatically acquitted; likened
to Ellis case
1995 - (Student) Nick Wills
Falsely accused; Accuser later
convicted of making false statement
1995
- (A father) "Michael"
Falsely accused, convicted;
police withhold evidence, compensated $570,000 in 2000
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