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A teenage girl was taken screaming and struggling to a bedroom, handcuffed to a bed and indecently assaulted with a bottle by three policeman, the High Court in Auckland was told yesterday.
Suspended Assistant Police Commissioner Clint Rickards and former policemen Brad Shipton and Bob Schollum heard the allegations on the first day of their trial yesterday.
Rickards, Shipton and Schollum all pleaded not guilty to one charge each of kidnapping – by confining – and one charge each of the indecent assault of the teenager with a bottle.
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Rickards in court on further s
A teenage girl was taken screaming and struggling to a bedroom, handcuffed to a bed and indecently assaulted with a bottle by three policeman, the High Court in Auckland was told yesterday.
Suspended Assistant Police Commissioner Clint Rickards and former policemen Brad Shipton and Bob Schollum heard the allegations on the first day of their trial yesterday.
Rickards, Shipton and Schollum all pleaded not guilty to one charge each of kidnapping – by confining – and one charge each of the indecent assault of the teenager with a bottle.
The offences are alleged to have occurred between November 1983 and August 1984 in Rotorua.
The men were acquitted in March last year of raping Rotorua woman Louise Nicholas also in the 1980s.
The latest trial is cloaked by suppression orders and many details of last year's trial also remain suppressed.
In brief opening remarks from defence lawyers for each of the three men, all denied the incident ever happened.
The men's lawyers all claim the complainant was lying about the attack and Rickards' lawyer John Haigh said his client did not even know the girl.
"(He) did not know this woman, he did not know her before, did not know her at the time and he does not know her after."
Crown Prosecutor Mark Zarifeh (crct) told the jury of eight men and four women that the teenager had been in a consensual sexual relationship with Shipton at the time of the alleged assault.
Mr Zarifeh told the court the teenager had arrived at a house in Rotorua to find the three accused, along with two other men, drinking.
After being handed a drink by Shipton, the crown said the men started to joke about having sex with the teenager.
When she told them this would not happen, Shipton allegedly said "she won't go willing" to the men.
The teenager was then picked up by several of the men and taken screaming and struggling to a bedroom, he told the jury.
The teenager was thrown on to a bed and Shipton then got on top of her, straddling her, he said.
Schollum and Rickards were on either side of the teenager next to the bed, Mr Zarifeh said.
The two other men were in the room, one near the door and the other pacing around the room.
Shipton then produced handcuffs and gave them to the other men who handcuffed her to the bed.
Schollum and Rickards told the teenager "don't fight it".
A bottle was produced and inserted into the teenager.
"(She) was in agony and screaming out to stop," Mr Zarifeh said.
Schollum told the men the teenager had had enough and the assault ended.
All the men left the room except for Schollum who told the teenager not to tell anyone.
The girl left the house, in pain, but did not see a doctor, the court was told.
Mr Zarifeh said days later Schollum told her he wanted her to go with him but she refused.
There had been no further contact between the two since.
The woman, whose identity is suppressed, this afternoon told the court how she had met and socialised with the three men.
The woman told the court she had met Shipton and had a relationship with him and met Rickards and Schollum through their friendship with Shipton.
The woman said she would drink, underage, at Rotorua's Cobb and Co restaurant and the three men would often come in.
The men also were frequent visitors to a restaurant where she worked across the road from the police station, she said.
The woman is expected to continue giving evidence today.
Two weeks has been set down for the trial.
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