It's extremely rare events overtake me in such a fashion as to make almost completely obsolete the essential point/gist of what I'd intended to post, however sadly this is one of those rare instances...
So without further ado, all credit - and profuse plaudits - to the lawyer Nigel Hampton QC, who had the moral gumption, the guts and the grist - to make a difference...while Peter Ellis still remained...and to dedicated Dunedin author Lynley Hood, for taking the time and trouble to do the painstaking research required...to prove his innocence, and indeed that a patent mistrial had been conducted...
...as well as politicians (and 'countless' others) such as Don Brash...who've long championed the cause of this man who just so happened, it would appear, to have been 'in the wrong place at the wrong time'...
So what had I meant to contribute to the discussion/debate? Simply the following...
Do the right thing, Muldoon-style - yes, a petty tyrant of a leader at times, who, however, and despite his numerous and well-traversed and canvassed faults, failings and other idiosyncratic perversities...
...nevertheless ultimately did the right thing by Arthur Allan Thomas...and extended the royal prerogative of mercy and pardoned him...
...and pardon Peter Ellis...
...before it's forever too late...
Yet his effective ministerial successor (in this regard), the present Auckland mayoral aspirant, former Labour Party leader and one-time Justice Minister - as well as leading 'Rogernome' in decades previous, Phil Goff - failed to do as much...himself rejecting the findings of the Eichelmann Report which had recommended Peter Ellis be pardoned...
Much like his own - seemingly mindless, and arguably spineless - refusal to revisit the overwhelming evidence so meticulously investigated and researched, assembled and endlessly cross-checked (and ultimately published) by Joe Karam on behalf of the similarly long-imprisoned David Bain...
But the truth will ultimately 'out' as they say...if not here, in the hereafter...
So without further ado, all credit - and profuse plaudits - to the lawyer Nigel Hampton QC, who had the moral gumption, the guts and the grist - to make a difference...while Peter Ellis still remained...and to dedicated Dunedin author Lynley Hood, for taking the time and trouble to do the painstaking research required...to prove his innocence, and indeed that a patent mistrial had been conducted...
...as well as politicians (and 'countless' others) such as Don Brash...who've long championed the cause of this man who just so happened, it would appear, to have been 'in the wrong place at the wrong time'...
So what had I meant to contribute to the discussion/debate? Simply the following...
Do the right thing, Muldoon-style - yes, a petty tyrant of a leader at times, who, however, and despite his numerous and well-traversed and canvassed faults, failings and other idiosyncratic perversities...
...nevertheless ultimately did the right thing by Arthur Allan Thomas...and extended the royal prerogative of mercy and pardoned him...
...and pardon Peter Ellis...
...before it's forever too late...
Yet his effective ministerial successor (in this regard), the present Auckland mayoral aspirant, former Labour Party leader and one-time Justice Minister - as well as leading 'Rogernome' in decades previous, Phil Goff - failed to do as much...himself rejecting the findings of the Eichelmann Report which had recommended Peter Ellis be pardoned...
Much like his own - seemingly mindless, and arguably spineless - refusal to revisit the overwhelming evidence so meticulously investigated and researched, assembled and endlessly cross-checked (and ultimately published) by Joe Karam on behalf of the similarly long-imprisoned David Bain...
But the truth will ultimately 'out' as they say...if not here, in the hereafter...
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