Thank God they’ve handed this show over to Paula Penfold, her work on Teina Pora has truly been one of the great feats of journalism in NZ this year.
The mounting evidence that Teina Pora has been framed by the NZ Police is at that point now that there simply must be some type of intervention for the face saving sake of justice, this entire case reeks to high heaven.
Teina Pora’s attempt to big talk the reward, the fact it was actually Malcolm Rewa who was doing all the raping, the fact Rewa wouldn’t have taken a young member from an opposing gang on a group rape when Rewa never did joint rapes, the fact Pora couldn’t recognize the house he was supposed to have entered, the fact that the force used in the murder of Susan was so extreme that it was highly unlikely to be Pora, the fact that witnesses were paid, the lack of lawyers with Pora during the interviews, on and on and on it goes.
Tonights 3rd Degree episode raises real questions about the way the Malcolm Rewa case was handled and if the Police had focused on Pora at the cost of catching Rewa earlier.
15 other women were raped because the Police were wrongly chasing Pora. Shocking. Just. Shocking.
Paula’s one on one interview with the Police Commissioner Malcolm Burgess is the highlight. Paula grills him in a way that wants you to throw the TV remote at the TV screen. He is owned. Just owned. His answers are as hollow as his glazed dead eyes. It is difficult to watch that interview and have any confidence in the Police conviction.
This looks more and more like the NZ Police framed Pora and our garden variety racist authority worship little brother complex of a Nation have validated that framing through jury rulings that backed the cops.
This is a terrible miscarriage of justice that the Police are refusing to back down on because in their alpha male world they can never admit they are wrong. Pora has done 20 years for a crime there is just no way he could have committed, how the bloody hell can this happen in the NZ legal system?
How many other Pora’s are there in our prisons and what efforts are being made to check convictions are right? This is an appalling case.
Thank you Paula Penfold and thank you 3rd Degree, this is current affairs the way it should be done.
MP Anne Tolley refuses to have a justice system that is questioned by the media but accepts one that buys false testimonies.
Watching Malcolm Burgess last night and three weeks ago, when he addressed the Bain case, gave me the creeps.
However, in my opinion, despite his apparent ability to abandon personal ethics when donning his uniform he simply represents part of a system that hasn’t the ability to investigate nor address possible miscarriages of justice. The judicial system has determined that Pora is guilty. In a technical sense the crime has been dealt with and there is nothing left for police to investigate.
This highlights the real need that a body independent of police and the judiciary be set up to investigate possible miscarriages of justice. Both these institutions have repeatedly demonstrated failure in this regard.
I was not surprised at all to see Peter Mitford-Burgess involved. In my experience and opinion, he is one of the most dishonest and incompetent police officers we have ever had in Aotearoa. His colleagues knew this, defence lawyers knew it, and judges probably knew it. People like him really need to be weeded out of the police. There should be no place for them, but until we have some oversight body with teeth, they’ll stay in there. Too many of us accept police who act outside the law, as long as they don’t act against us personally. All I can say is that one day they will. They’re already happy to single people like John Minto out for a bit of the bash, and with encouragement from Collins, Slater and co, they’ll get worse.
Free Teina Pora!! Imprison dishonest police!!
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