Bradley Keith Shipton

Bradley Keith Shipton (1958-2024) was released on parole from Wanganui prison in November 2008 after serving three years and five months of his 81/2 years sentence for the pack rape of a 20-year-old woman at Mount Maunganui beach hut in 1989. The woman was raped by police officers Shipton and Robert Francis Schollum (1952- ), Tauranga millionaire Peter Mana McNamara and Tauranga fireman Warren Graham Hales after she was lured to the hut on the pretext of a lunch date with one of the men. The trio were convicted of the rape in 2005 and jailed on August 5, 2005. Source: https://www.nzherald.co.nz/bay-of-plenty-times/news/shipton-parole-...

In 1981, thirteen-year-old Louise Crawford was raped by her father's friend, a Murupara policeman [permanent name suppression]. She laid a complaint but it was ignored. In 1986, eighteen-year-old Louise, now living in Rotorua, was visited by three other policemen, Clinton John Tukotahi Rickards (1961- ), Robert Francis Schollum (1952- ) and Bradley Keith Shipton (1958-2024). They forced her into a bedroom, stripped her of her long white dress, and forced a police baton into her body. Many other Rotorua women were assaulted in a similar way. Louise went to senior Rotorua policeman Detective Inspector John Buchanan Dewar (1952- ) for help. But he owed Rickards, Schollum and Shipton for sexual favours they had organised, and he fobbed her off and destroyed evidence of Rickards' pack-rape. In 1993 Dewar deliberately sabotaged two trials of the Murupara policeman who had raped 13 year old Louise, so that this rapist friend of Dewar's was also let off scot-free. John Dewer and two others have now been convicted of obstructing justice with regard to Rickards, Schollum, Shipton and the Murapara policeman. Schollum and Shipton are now serving eight years in solitary confinement for abducting and baton-raping another young Rotorua woman. Clint Rickards became New Zealand's O J Simpson when he avoided conviction after unscrupulous defence lawyers brutally attacked the rape victim with hearsay evidence, while significant information about those who assaulted her was suppressed. At a second trial Rickards also avoided conviction for kidnapping another girl, a sixteen years old, and violating her with a whiskey bottle. Rickards is now finishing his law degree. He is expected to specialize in obtaining acquittals for big, rich powerful men who have gang-raped young girls. Source: NZ Folk Song https://www.folksong.org.nz/name_suppression/index.html.