Show Notes
In this special bonus episode we talk to Peter Ellis' sister, Tania, about what has happened since the Supreme Court quashed her brother’s convictions. A year on, has his family received an apology from the government for the miscarriage of justice? And what about Peter’s four women co-workers whose lives were turned upside down for decades when they were also charged with child abuse and then discharged in the early 1990s? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
More from Peter Ellis, the Creche Case & Me
In this special bonus episode, we bring you Melanie Reid’s keynote speech to the annual NZ Law Society Conference in Invercargill, a candid behind-the-scenes insight into what it was really like to be at the coalface of this extraordinary case. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
What has life been like for the girl described as the most credible and compelling witness who then retracted and said the abuse never happened - only to be disbelieved and ignored by the same establishment? And in this heartbreaking final episode, Peter Ellis makes his last legal stand in a three decades fight against power and politics. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
An incendiary new book on the Christchurch Civic Creche case incriminates an establishment that refuses to look at the big picture – not just the police and the investigators, but the judiciary and parliament as well. It reveals flawed processes, interviewing techniques and investigators at the heart of a totally unsound investigation, but it doesn’t change a thing for Ellis. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
As Peter Ellis sits in prison, developments in the case keep coming. A year he is convicted, the star child witness retracts her testimony saying she was never abused by Ellis at all. Meanwhile a prominent conservative politician does a U-turn and the top cop at the centre of the case admits to multiple affairs with complainant mothers and a social worker. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
It is June 1993 and the night before the verdict in a case that has consumed the nation with its far-fetched claims of satanic rituals and children being sexually abused with needles and sticks. Accused childcare worker Peter Ellis spends it with young reporter Melanie Reid, recording the very last of their remarkable clandestine interviews in his flat, hours from finding out whether he will be locked away. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.