‘Dunedin author Lynley Hood and former National leader Don Brash have written to the new Justice Minister Amy Adams asking for an independent inquiry into the Peter Ellis case.
…The letter says:
– Though more than 20 years have passed since the controversial conviction of Peter Ellis, disquiet over the Civic Creche case remains widespread and ongoing and extends to some of the most senior judges in the country.
– In the history of New Zealand criminal justice, no petition to Parliament has been supported by such a weight of political, legal and scholarly authority as the 2003 petition calling for a Royal Commission of Inquiry.
– The Civic Creche case is recognised internationally as a manifestation of a wave of child abuse hysteria that swept the western world in the 1990s. Hundreds of innocent childcare workers were convicted of bizarre and often impossible crimes against very young children. Most of the overseas cases have now been overturned.
…The Crown has maintained the children would not have told lies and clearly implicated Ellis…’
This remains one of the most grievous miscarriages of justice I’ve seen in my lifetime. Those who railroaded Ellis during that hysterical witch-hunt should be in jail. And if justice ruled, they surely would be.
Having been a victim of blind justice:
http://ronbosoldier.blogspot.com/2005/06/real-story-of-clintons-assassin.html
My heart goes out to all those falsely accused and who have lost everything in a mindless witch hunt….
Unless it happen to you – you cannot imagine sheer HORROR
The fable is that when Ellis met David Bain in gaol he said to Bain “treat me as a friend but not as one of your family.” Don’t know whether that is true. Ellis was a victim of creepy women ganging-up on about the only male in the institution.
Word in Corrections was Ellis was railroaded and in there folks are very cynical about the line”I never did it”
It says a lot of he’s viewed that way. (railroaded). I believe Ellis and Scott Watson are both wrongly jailed.
Not sure about Scott Watson other than to say the following
a Being an unsavoury prick doesn’t = murderer.
b Bodies not in the sea where the police felt compelled to look.
c The msm made a hash of it labeling it the “Sounds Murders” with dreamy music over. Watson was done like a dinner before the trial began.(Not to say he is innocent though.)
d The difference between a ketch and a yawl is fundamental. I learned that very young when I read arguably the very first travel book “Sailing Alone Around The World,” Joshua Slocum. Still a good read and still in print today!
You would be right.
Poser: Are the two “victims” definitely dead?
Scott watson is a different matter.
I won’t tell that story here. Can email you. Would be interested in why you think he was set up.
Thanks Oswald, I’d appreciate it. And I’ll tell you why I think he was railroaded.
Sent
Replied.
Yes, I don’t disagree.
Peter Ellis was always a harmless poof. And probably a nice person.