Two police officers have gone on trial accused of deliberately withholding crucial witness evidence that prosecutors say led to the wrongful murder conviction of Alan Hall, who spent 17 years in prison for the 1985 killing of Arthur Easton before his conviction was overturned in 2022.
The officers, who have pleaded not guilty and remain protected by name suppression, are charged with attempting to pervert the course of justice by allegedly excluding statements from eyewitness Ronald Turner, who repeatedly described seeing a large Māori man fleeing the scene rather than Hall, who was a slight Pākehā man.
Crown prosecutors argue the omitted evidence would have fatally undermined the case against Hall and described the alleged conduct as an “unforgivable miscarriage of justice”, while defence lawyers reject the claims, arguing the prosecution has overstated the significance of the witness evidence and pointing to other evidence relied on at trial. The High Court trial is expected to last about two weeks.
For far too long, now, some police have played Tom foolery over peoples lives. It has been without consequences.
Soft police complaints authority when is should have been High Court , jury and prison.
Are these situations rare? A review of the police complaints authority is long overdue. Will such a stand against police cause people to leave police? Only the ones who shouldn’t be there in the first place.
Hardly unusual.Arthur Allen Thomas and I wonder how many other people are rotting in jail who did nothing wrong. “Safer communities”….I personally don’t think so.
The Arthur Allen Thomson case was all about a police officer planting shell cases from Arthurs firearm at the crime scene.
The police officer was unaware ctime scene photos were already taken.
The police complaints authority is nothing more than a sideshow. Some sort of appeasement for the citizens.
Recently the crimes police commit are much more serious. Watching beastiality and underage sex. It is long past time the police complaints authority should go. It is nothing more than a sideshow, Catch and release. Such organisations are not delivering justice. It is so blatantly obvious. It has dismantled public faith in justice.
Look at the most recent events being found on Police laptops…!
And the ‘In-House Rape Gang’ that Louise exposed in Rotorua and elsewhere!
Most of the good cops (IF there is such a thing…) have pissed-off to Oz or the U.K…
NEVER TRUST A COP, AND NEVER TALK TO POLICE!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqjfGDxa0ow
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAjV7RSPqik
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FEl-jw9p3Y
https://vigilante.tv/w/uKQsZ5Zg2YfzHGWYsNRPjC
https://phibetaiota.net/2019/03/breaking-new-zealand-false-flag-by-zionist-israel-with-complete-new-zealand-police-and-freemason-complicity/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1T33A3jZew
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_New_Zealand_Police_controversies
Arthur Alan Tbomas
David Doherty
David Bain
Peter Ellis
Wayne Tamihere
Scott Watson
All cases have one thing in common. You guess…
Reading the RNZ link above. Why has it taken 17 years of prison for these police officers to be prosecuted? People have lost faith in the police.