Source: Radio New Zealand
The man has appeared in the Auckland District Court. RNZ / Cole Eastham-Farrelly
One of the country’s most notorious criminals has been charged with a serious sexual assault from nearly 40 years ago.
The man made his first appearance in the Auckland District Court on Wednesday before Judge Kirsten Lummis where he was granted interim name suppression until March 10.
He entered a not guilty plea through his lawyer.
The man, aged in his 70s, is charged with a serious sexual assault of a woman in Auckland’s Onehunga in 1988.
Detective Inspector Scott Beard confirmed to RNZ police had charged a man over a historical stranger sexual assault in Auckland during the late 1980s.
“An investigation was carried out at the time when the alleged rape occurred in Onehunga on 18 June 1988.
“Enquiries available to detectives at the time were unable to identify the perpetrator.”
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In May this year the complainant contacted police to review her case.
“This was assigned to an investigator in the Auckland City Adult Sexual Assault Team.”
Police had since charged the man.
Beard was unable to go into the specifics of the 2025 enquiries given court proceedings are under way.
“However, it is pleasing that we can bring this matter to the courts on behalf of the complainant, given there is no statute of limitations on this sort of offending.”
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