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Current affairs with John Campbell.
Clint Rickards, Brad Shipton and Bob Schollum were found not guilty of indecently assaulting a 16 year old girl in Rotorua in 1983 or 84. And today we're able to tell you that Shipton and Schollum are already serving jail terms for raping a 20 year old woman in Mount Maunganui in 1989. So this morning when the verdicts were announced only Assistant Commissioner Clint Rickards got to leave the court, the other two men were returned to holding cells before being driven back to prison. Rickards with his lawyer and his family beside him, walked outside and held an extraordinary impromptu media conference. So should the jury have been told that two men protesting their innocence in this case, had been convicted in another case and that that case had some aspects in common with what they stood accused of here? We put these questions to Criminal Barrister, Marie Dyhberg.
Plus…For two weeks 3 year old Auckland girl Nia Wallace has been lying in a coma at the Starship Hospital. She's there because she was hit by a car driven by a 15 year old. It’s been tough on her family because until she wakes up they won't know the extent of her injuries. Today her father made a heartfelt appeal for tougher laws to do with young drivers. Gavin Wallace talks with John about how he thinks 15 is too young to drive and all learner drivers need more practical experience before being let loose on the roads.
And today was the first day of the oyster season, which is great if you live down south but in the past oysters often haven't made it as far north as Auckland on the first day of the season. Not today though, for Rob Redwood the owner of the Eastridge New World in Auckland, is determined he would match oysters with Jaffa’s. Plus we cross live to Auckland’s Seamart to speak with Invercargill Mayor, Tim Shadbolt." TV3; tv3.co.nz; 21/03/2007