Have the police stitched up an innocent man again?

[Katman]

Anyone see the Teina Pora story on Third Degree tonight?

[Crasherfromwayback]

Anyone see the Teina Pora story on Third Degree tonight?

I missed it as I had friends here for dinner. But I'll watch it on demand, as I reckon it's an interesting story. From the very little I have heard...seems like they totally have the wrong guy no?

[scissorhands]

His relatives sold him for the $5,000 reward, and he was also disliked by his homys for being a dumbass.
The cops accommodated these interests to close the books...


For the mentally ill people of NZ
protection agencies such as the police
[primarily the mental health foundation]
need to pick their game up......
as they are looking
like the nasty bullies
that cause some crazies to snap

'Everyone dislikes you, so you must be the problem....'
is what I was told.....
thanks guys for putting the boot in

[Crasherfromwayback]

His relatives sold him for the $5,000 reward, and he was also disliked by his homys for being a dumbass.
The cops accommodated these interests to close the books...

Yeah reward money can sometimes be a double edged sword.

[scissorhands]

Have the police stitched up an innocent man [with metal illness] again?

fixed that for you....

[Katman]

I missed it as I had friends here for dinner. But I'll watch it on demand, as I reckon it's an interesting story. From the very little I have heard...seems like they totally have the wrong guy no?

Well considering a jury ended up convicting Malcolm Rewa (known for his lone wolf offending) for the rape of Susan Burdett (and there is very little likelihood that a Highway 61 member and a Mongrel Mob prospect would work together) it would appear that Teina Pora has served 20 years of a life sentence for a crime he didn't commit.

[Crasherfromwayback]

(and there is very little likelihood that a Highway 61 member and a Mongrel Mob prospect would work together) .

In my experience in dealing with gangs (which is a fair bit)...you'd be 100% correct.

[Katman]

So once again it appears that the police withheld crucial evidence in order to obtain a rape and murder conviction on a person who shouldn't have been charged with anything more than just wasting police time.

Way to go NZ police.

[gammaguy]

Now now,we all know the enzed piggies never let the facts get in the way of a conviction,specially if the fall guy happens to be a tinted person from cannons creek or mangere.

Its how they roll ,and if you grew up in either of those places like I did,you know its true

[Swoop]

It was concerning that the senior police person wasn't even entertaining the concept of reviewing the case.
He did excell in putting on a smug face occasionally... *case closed* - "ding" - "next". So much for being absolutely sure of guilt. At least one detective was following the path of the DNA evidence.

[unstuck]

fixed that for you....

Is that like lead poisoning?.

Or someone who is addicted to heavy metal?

[unstuck]

(and there is very little likelihood that a Highway 61 member and a Mongrel Mob prospect would work together)

Unless the profits are too good to pass up, I know a lot of gang members who put colors aside when it comes to profits.

[SMOKEU]

Is anyone surprised? All the government seems to care about is to turn ordinary citizens into criminals, while allowing and even encouraging the real criminals to do what they do best. They do of course bust some real criminals, just to make it appear they're doing something.

[Katman]

Unless the profits are too good to pass up, I know a lot of gang members who put colors aside when it comes to profits.

I don't know quite what sort of profit there'd be in raping and murdering someone.

The fact is that the police pursued a conviction that they must have known was highly questionable. They were obviously too focused on looking good in the public eye by being seen to solve a crime. In the meantime Malcolm Rewa went on to rape another 15 women before being caught.

[Paul in NZ]

Look I actually feel bloody sorry for this guy and its an outrage that this is going on and on. This despite my feelings about gang members.

Several years ago we had a brush with a certain ‘detective’ who was involved with a very high profile case which is still being argued. Now remember this was a LONG time back and the Police force recognised the problem and spent a lot of time doing things about it. But this chap was a real right thinking straight laced hard drinking mans man who could spot a weirdo pinky gay faggot wrong un from a mile off and was sure they were probably guilty of ‘something’ so wasn’t too fussy about what it was that actually convicted them.

He was also alcohol dependant and a serial woman beater and just plain nasty violent drunk.

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