Christchurch biker wrongly convicted of rape gets $350,000 compensation

[HenryDorsetCase]

all of you supporting the changes to the legal aid laws need to think about this case.

[HenryDorsetCase]

Oh, and say NOTHING to the police.

"I am exercising my right to silence" is all you say.

[slofox]

Still, reasonable salary for two years I guess.

Well, I'd feel aggrieved with that sum if it was me. It's not just the time in the can - that's bad enough in itself but it's also the social consequences plus the sheer bloody angst of knowing the bastards set you up and that they barefacedly lied about their evidence.

Bad move, Detective X.

[scissorhands]

From another forum, not my posting....

Police told Aaron Farmer his DNA was on the woman, ''which of course it wasn't - so they lied to him even in his interview'', Bev Farmer said.


In the USA that is perfectly legal, and a known and studied technique that prosecutors and police regularly employ. Everyone needs to know that. (I haven't experienced it personally, but that kind of thing bugs me, especially knowing how my mind worked when I was younger.) Especially people who might be naive enough to think that police or prosecutors can't lie.

I also wonder if growing up with experiences and reactions, that when you try to explain them to people, always results in them saying, "baloney" -- if that makes a person tend to doubt their own knowledge, and/or expect that even if they are right, they'll be 'proved' wrong somehow, anyway. With that kind of conditioning I can see someone getting eaten alive by police interrogation techniques.

[scissorhands]

People are savage animals, and aspies have to accept this terrible truth and reserve their childlike and loving trust for those who prove themselves to be trustworthy, or at the very least not lavish it on the entire of society and make themselves vulnerable by it.
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from somewhere on the net........ If he is told something, he takes it as truth, even if it isnt like him. When I was 18 and obviously didnt know he was on the spectrum, my sister and I played a joke on him and told him that he was inappropriate with her. Made up an eleborate story, I guess because we knew he would believe it. I knew nothing at the time of autism, I just thought this was his personality. I never met anyone before that I could convince of so many things..

He apologized to her up and down. We convinced him of this while laughing. So it wasnt even like we were so serious and upset. We were obviously having a good time.

He is very intelligent, speaks well, has a lot of knowledge on many things. I dont want him to come off as stupid to people. I do not think that, I think he is awesome! I love him so much! I hope I dont make him sound dumb on here! These are just things he has struggled with for a long time and we didnt know why till he was diagnosed with aspergers syndrome.

[marie_speeds]

His mum was just on Closeup. You could see just how angry and bitter she was by the whole ordeal. Her last statement.... in NZ you are not innocent until proven guilty, you are guilty until you can prove yourself innocent.

[AllanB]

Not a lot of coin IMO for the damage done to this guys rep and future.

Imagine the job interviews - what did you do for the last few years? - ah I was inside wrongly convicted for rape .... but I was cleared.

[Oakie]

I wonder when the cops will WAKE UP and realise that an aspie will not respond the same as a neurotypical during interview, and any tell tale clues of guilt will be very hard to decipher unless said officers ARE TRAINED to work with aspergians.

In your opinion is it possible for a high functioning aspie to go undiagnosed for many years? What would be the (not so) obvious signs? Serious question. I'm dealing with a workmate who I and a person with considerable experience in the field think may be an aspie. It's Ok, we're not going to confront him with it. Just want to try and find a a way to communicate with him about some inappropriate behaviour that he doesn't acknowledge. PM me if you want.

[scumdog]

The keen motorcyclist said he had planned to travel the world on his motorbike before he was sent to prison, but he was "getting a bit old now".
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Too old??

He needs to harden up...

[gsxr]

...The keen motorcyclist said he had planned to travel the world on his motorbike before he was sent to prison, but he was "getting a bit old now"...

This particular motorcyclist wasnt even capable of tightening the chain despite me showing him several times how to do it.
One needs to have some basic skills before departing on such a journey.
Too my knowledge the sickness benefit would not have funded such illustrious dreams

[scumdog]

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Police told Aaron Farmer his DNA was on the woman, ''which of course it wasn't - so they lied to him even in his interview'', Bev Farmer said..

Must have had a shit lawyer if he didn't pick that up early on.

[Oakie]

Too my knowledge the sickness benefit would not have funded such illustrious dreams

$350,000 would.

[scissorhands]

In your opinion is it possible for a high functioning aspie to go undiagnosed for many years? What would be the (not so) obvious signs? Serious question. I'm dealing with a workmate who I and a person with considerable experience in the field think may be an aspie. It's Ok, we're not going to confront him with it. Just want to try and find a a way to communicate with him about some inappropriate behaviour that he doesn't acknowledge. PM me if you want.

a person with considerable experience in the field.....

find a a way to communicate with him about some inappropriate behaviour that he doesn't acknowledge...

what field?

aspies aint saints they do inappropriate things all the time, just like most people, like stealing lightbulbs drinking heavily to dull the pain quite a few at The Daktory too

The best way to gauge a persons score is via online quizzes, normally completed by the person themselves, maybe you could wing it and get a score for him I dont know, honesty required.

Autism NZ are just a phone call away.

My best experience of understanding aspergers was when I attended a support meeting full of the smiling ravers, even the unhappy upset ones look neutral, the face hardly changes. Youthful even in old age, trusting, open. They can go on and on and on and on about their pet interests like train schedules.

The dark side of aspie is maybe staring at tits for too long, they stare at all sorts of things that they like though, even sparrows etc. Generally they have a weaker sex drive, an appropriately so as many should not always have children

Snapping in a meltdown. Meltdown rages are from accumulated disappointments and sorrows, abuse and let downs. Most people have no idea, and many will never understand as they are involved in building up this rage in aspie.

I think some aspies in the US have gone on a shooting spree. David Gray re Aramoana looked like one to me, but that was just his character in the movie I saw.

Burt Munroe, Bill Gates, Dan Ackroyd, Albert Einstein, Nicola Tesla, Issac Newton, John Britten, Daryl Hannah, a shit load more. Very few entertainers or pollies will be aspie, they are found as quiet inventors and designers, at their best. At the general worst, they sit in front of the computer for too long hiding from life

they are just like most people

[FJRider]

To my knowledge the sickness benefit would not have funded such illustrious dreams

It has for some people in the past ... the trick is not letting WINZ finding out they are ...

[marie_speeds]

This particular motorcyclist wasnt even capable of tightening the chain despite me showing him several times how to do it.
One needs to have some basic skills before departing on such a journey.
Too my knowledge the sickness benefit would not have funded such illustrious dreams

He is autistic so that must make you feel real superior that you know how to tighten a chain....