In never-before-heard interviews, this gripping new series takes you inside one of New Zealand’s most controversial legal cases, when a kind of madness gripped Christchurch, resulting in a miscarriage of justice that would take 30 years to put right. Peter Ellis, the Creche Case & Me is an 8-part Newsroom Investigates podcast presented by Melanie Reid - or watch the series at Newsroom.co.nz (https://www.newsroom.co.nz/peter-ellis-the-creche-case--me)
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In this special bonus episode, we bring you Melanie Reid’s keynote speech to the annual NZ Law Society Conference in Invercargill, a candid behind-the-scenes insight into what it was really like to be at the coalface of this extraordinary case.
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28 Dec 2023
Bonus episode: Pyrrhic victory
In this special bonus episode we talk to Peter Ellis' sister, Tania, about what has happened since the Supreme Court quashed her brother’s convictions. A year on, has his family received an apology from the government for the miscarriage of justice? And what about Peter’s four women co-workers whose lives were turned upside down for decades when they were also charged with child abuse and then discharged in the early 1990s?
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29 Dec 2022
Episode 8: The girl who retracted
What has life been like for the girl described as the most credible and compelling witness who then retracted and said the abuse never happened - only to be disbelieved and ignored by the same establishment? And in this heartbreaking final episode, Peter Ellis makes his last legal stand in a three decades fight against power and politics.
Presented by award-winning Newsroom Investigates editor Melanie Reid. Discover more at Newsroom.co.nz.
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29 Dec 2022
Episode 7: The author vs everyone
An incendiary new book on the Christchurch Civic Creche case incriminates an establishment that refuses to look at the big picture – not just the police and the investigators, but the judiciary and parliament as well. It reveals flawed processes, interviewing techniques and investigators at the heart of a totally unsound investigation, but it doesn’t change a thing for Ellis.
Presented by award-winning Newsroom Investigates editor Melanie Reid. Discover more at Newsroom.co.nz.
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29 Dec 2022
Episode 6: Prison
As Peter Ellis sits in prison, developments in the case keep coming. A year after he is convicted, the star child witness retracts her testimony saying she was never abused by Ellis at all. Meanwhile a prominent conservative politician does a U-turn and the top cop at the centre of the case admits to multiple affairs with complainant mothers and a social worker.
Presented by award-winning Newsroom Investigates editor Melanie Reid. Discover more at Newsroom.co.nz.
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29 Dec 2022
Episode 5: The trial
It is June 1993 and the night before the verdict in a case that has consumed the nation with its far-fetched claims of satanic rituals and children being sexually abused with needles and sticks. Accused childcare worker Peter Ellis spends it with young reporter Melanie Reid, recording the very last of their remarkable clandestine interviews in his flat, hours from finding out whether he will be locked away.
Presented by award-winning Newsroom Investigates editor Melanie Reid. Discover more at Newsroom.co.nz.
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29 Dec 2022
Episode 4: Four women arrested
The belief that a ring of child sex abusers made up of a young gay creche worker and four women living normal suburban lives seizes the imaginations of Christchurch’s establishment. Police raid the homes of the women, trawling a backyard goldfish pond, climbing up into rooves and emptying family board games, before arresting and charging them with a raft of offences.
Presented by award-winning Newsroom Investigates editor Melanie Reid. Discover more at Newsroom.co.nz.
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29 Dec 2022
Episode 3: Police and panic
Up to five children a day are being seen at the police Child Abuse Unit, some put through multiple evidential interviews. The panic spreads through the families, and parents are ballistic with fear - a frenzy being led by therapists and police.
Presented by award-winning Newsroom Investigates editor Melanie Reid. Discover more at Newsroom.co.nz.
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29 Dec 2022
Episode 2: Peter Arrested
When Detective Colin Eade and a core group of parents call an urgent meeting, the flames of fear become a bonfire – Eade is convinced Ellis is not acting alone and that at least 10 other offenders are also involved.
Presented by award-winning Newsroom Investigates editor Melanie Reid. Discover more at Newsroom.co.nz.
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29 Dec 2022
Episode 1: Unbelievable
In this shocking first episode, we take you into early 1990s Christchurch with its conservatism, white power gangs - and claims that satanic cults and ritual abuse might be occurring under everyone’s noses.
Presented by award-winning Newsroom Investigates editor Melanie Reid. Discover more at Newsroom.co.nz.
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