Detective Malcolm John Thomas, Stanley Matthew Willcox and Senior Sergeant Alan Davidson had been working together since the 4th July 1987. Willcox had been defaming his subjects for years; telephoning Finance Companies, Insurers Loss Adjusters, Banks and anyone else prepared to listen.
During the 1980’s and early 1990’s the local Gisborne media had a reluctance to damage their relationships with the Local Police. Radio New Zealand – Roger Hanford Even the state owned Radio New Zealand’s local journalist Roger Hanford was a...
Once it had been established how Jenni McManus had been contacted and by whom a number of calls were placed with the perpetrator Marianne Spence (Gillingham) at the Gisborne Herald. Of course Spence denied her part in the conspiracy, claiming that...
In 1987-88 seriously corrupt Police Officers conspired with a local newspaper to destroy three successful businesses. The reason they set about doing this? One of the owners had given evidence against a Police Officer in a trial four years earlier....