Have the police stitched up an innocent man again?

**Katman** · 1st August 2013, 14:38

Interesting too that one of the star prosecution witnesses was paid $5000 to testify, even though that same witness had earlier been ruled by the police to be totally unreliable.

**Smifffy** · 1st August 2013, 14:39

Originally Posted by Paul in NZ

One scary mofo given the power he had to make your life very very miserable.

One hopes that this poor bastard IS compensated… And the force have cleaned up a lot of this crap over the years

My interaction earlier this year with a Detective Sergeant from Counties Manukau CIB, and his off-sider, lead me to believe that at least some of this crap is extant.

**98tls** · 1st August 2013, 15:17

What i cant work out is how was the guy found guilty? Sure we heard lots of reasons to doubt he did it but on what grounds was he convicted it seems obvious he wasnt even there ie he didnt even know what house it happend in etc.Its one thing for some stupid cunt to put his hand up for something he didnt do but what evidence was there for a jury to find him guilty twice? Wasnt the coppers that found him guilty it was a jury..twice.On the face of it from watching the tv show sure he didnt do it but as i say how the fuck did a jury believe he did? Had a read through here but finding a baseball bat in a park that wasnt used in the murder/his story seemed to change every time he was asked about his involvement hardly seems reason for a jury to find him guilty.http://www.google.co.nz/url?sa=t&rct...Hx_caoGHA_d8Cg

**Katman** · 1st August 2013, 15:30

Originally Posted by 98tls

On the face of it from watching the tv show sure he didnt do it but as i say how the fuck did a jury believe he did?

Perhaps it had something to do with the story the police concocted.

His false confession wouldn't have helped matters either.

**Jantar** · 1st August 2013, 15:32

Originally Posted by 98tls

What i cant work out is how was the guy found guilty? ......

The jury were only presented with a fraction of the evidence that we saw on TV. They heard his confession about being there, but they were not told that another detective believed that the Burdett murder was part of a suspected serial rapists activities. Indeed the evidence for a serial rapist didn't exist until the DNA evidence was made available one month after Pora was found guilty.

**98tls** · 1st August 2013, 15:49

Originally Posted by Jantar

The jury were only presented with a fraction of the evidence that we saw on TV. They heard his confession about being there, but they were not told that another detective believed that the Burdett murder was part of a suspected serial rapists activities. Indeed the evidence for a serial rapist didn't exist until the DNA evidence was made available one month after Pora was found guilty.

Makes it worse eh,at the time of the young fellas appeal DNA had proved it was Rewas semen but his appeal gets turned down for the murder

Bet his scabby family fronts up when its compensation time though methinks it will take a lot longer for him to get out of jail than it took to get him in there.

**scissorhands** · 1st August 2013, 16:18

This injustice inflicted upon a broken boy will further drive the wedge of dissatisfaction in NZ and western societies

Its not just police here. Its mental health, lawyers who are all feeling the karmic lick of guilt

May they experience the pain and suffering of these poor unfortunates that they condemn.

AND, Rewa could have been stopped, if they were not so busy framing a mentally ill boy

Women around NZ will remember this fact, all too clearly

**oldrider** · 1st August 2013, 16:27

Originally Posted by Katman

Anyone see the Teina Pora story on Third Degree tonight?

If you have done nothing wrong, you have nothing to worry about! ... In NZ? ... yeah, right!

**Murray** · 1st August 2013, 16:32

The one armed man did it!!

**98tls** · 1st August 2013, 16:40

Originally Posted by Katman

Perhaps it had something to do with the story the police concocted.

His false confession wouldn't have helped matters either.

At the time of the young guys appeal (2000) the DNA had proved that Rewa had raped the women,surely the defense council knew that,what i am trying to say is that the evidence the jury convivted him of the first time must have been flimsy at best and if at the appeal stage the semen was proven to be someone elses then he must have had a fucking bad lawyer.

**Smifffy** · 1st August 2013, 16:48

Originally Posted by scissorhands

This injustice inflicted upon a broken boy will further drive the wedge of dissatisfaction in NZ and western societies

Its not just police here. Its mental health, lawyers who are all feeling the karmic lick of guilt

May they experience the pain and suffering of these poor unfortunates that they condemn.

AND, Rewa could have been stopped, if they were not so busy framing a mentally ill boy

Women around NZ will remember this fact, all too clearly

Bollocks.

Police, mental health and lawyers wouldn't know what a guilty conscience is. Women around NZ might remember this fact (TM Edbear) but it will do them fuck all good.

**Katman** · 1st August 2013, 17:01

Originally Posted by 98tls

At the time of the young guys appeal (2000) the DNA had proved that Rewa had raped the women,surely the defense council knew that,what i am trying to say is that the evidence the jury convivted him of the first time must have been flimsy at best and if at the appeal stage the semen was proven to be someone elses then he must have had a fucking bad lawyer.

While Malcolm Rewa was found guilty of Susan Burdett's rape he was not found guilty of her murder.

One has to assume that the jury still accepted that Pora and Rewa worked together in the crime and that while Rewa raped Susan it was Pora who murdered her.

As has already been said though, Rewa always acted alone and there is very little likelihood that he would have ever teamed up with a Mongrel Mob prospect anyway. There's no love lost between the Mongrel Mob and Highway 61.

All the evidence now suggests that Pora was never even at the crime scene.

**98tls** · 1st August 2013, 17:19

In that 1st link i posted its states "the crowns case was that Pora wasnt the killer but was there with others" so how on earth did a jury decide he was the killer with no physical evidence to even show he was in the house.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teina_P...out_convictionWhilst the cops may have provided the rope to hang this guy his laywer and 2 jurys put it round his neck and pulled the lever surely.That said i feel fuck all pity for the muppet he stuck his hand up in order to gain financially the ironic thing being his own family stuck theres up to help put him away,the saddest part of all this is the women who suffered after the fact.

**duckonin** · 1st August 2013, 18:19

Originally Posted by oldrider

If you have done nothing wrong, you have nothing to worry about! ... In NZ? ... yeah, right!

Oldrider your right on. But the rest of the world (police) can be just as bad if not worse. In my opinion trust none of the cunts. Dysfunctional, corrupt, racist also spring to mind.

These are persons we are lead to believe are honest, trustworthy, yeah right and I am fucking Santa Claus .

**Smifffy** · 1st August 2013, 18:25

Originally Posted by duckonin

Oldrider your right on. But the rest of the world (police) can be just as bad if not worse. In my opinion trust none of the cunts. Dysfunctional, corrupt, racist also spring to mind.

These are persons we are lead to believe are honest, trustworthy, yeah right and I am fucking Santa Claus .

Is Santa a good root?