This is disgusting…
Court rules for Teina Pora in compensation battle
Teina Pora has won his High Court case challenging the $2.5 million compensation he was paid by the government for wrongful imprisonment.
Mr Pora asked the court to review the compensation because it was not adjusted for inflation.
…he had his compensation inflation adjusted???
Inflation adjusted???
Fuck inflation adjusted, what about justice adjusted rather than justice adjacent?
The farce of this case has been picked apart thanks to the journalism of Paula Penfold and her team and the fragility of how confident you could be in a verdict was terrifying.
This garbage case was all the cops in NZ needed to do to throw a person into prison to rot for 2o years?
But there is a bigger issue here, beyond the fragility of the case is the reality that the cops framed a mentally slow young brown teenager paying bribes to prison narks and easily swayed estranged family members during a marathon questioning session so draconian that it was changed after the Teina Pora case.
The bloody cops knew they were framing an innocent man and then spent 20 years trying to ignore it.
It is the NZ Police and their alpha male culture who need to be on trial here. The compensation would be acceptable if it had been a mistake, but this wasn’t a mistake. The cops knew he was innocent, they were under immense pressure to get a result, they bribed prison narks and estranged families for testimony, framed Pora and threw away the keys.
That’s not a mistake or miscarriage of justice, it’s a deliberate and criminal abuse of power by a Police force who are a law unto themselves.
The fact the NZ Police framed Pora isn’t the lead focus of this terrible case is proof positive that the cops still have that power today.
This is NZ and this is why there needs to be change.
I’m sure you are right Martyn.
Unless a murder case is blatantly obvious the police feel a need to show the public a result. The courts feel a need to give the public assurance that the system securing their safety is efficient, and pity help whoever gets in the frame. I suspect among high profile cases where the accused seriously denies guilt, the majority of convictions are a violation of justice.
Juries are mostly naive honest folk who tend to accept what the police and the justice system are competent and honest, they want to believe in the integrity of the system too ,so they are putty in the hands of the court.
Judges must know again and again they are sending innocent suckers
down . I would always ask for a judge’s ruling myself.
D J S
I remember that Judith Collins wouldn’t look at the case. She was such a hard person to be Minister of Justice.
watch Netflix’s “the Making of a Murderer” to see how it’s done and it is not just the police, it is a whole system. It will shock you
Watch the police tape of the questioning. He did not get any right. They took him out to identify the house where the murder took place which he could not do. Policeman eventually said “If I show you which one it was would that make it easier?”
What happened to Pora is totally frightening and should stand as a warning to all, Left or Right about the dangers of facing the current justice system. Nobody seeing the systemic and personal failures accrue against Pora should have any faith, higher standards must be demanded, monitored and delivered. The creepiest bit to me is to see Ministers of the Crown running for cover, blaming the victim, avoiding the issue.
Poor Teina, justice denied. The whole thing stinks.
Amy Adams and Judith Collins disgust me, Collins in particular over the Canadian Judge saga. On that occasion Collins played god and like her ACC portfolio shopped around until she was able to get someone to agree with her and not pay out any compo.
ACC and the “pre existing injury” excuse.
The detectives involved need to be charged and pay Pora compensation from thier own pockets, they won’t need it in jail. 100,000 per year is an insult for false imprisonment. Imho.
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