Tag: Peter Ellis
Historian Gareth Watkins reflects on significant dates in Aotearoa New Zealand's history that had a unique impact on our queer communities.
19 October 1955
Activist and community icon Shelley Te Waiariki Howard was born in Hastings. For much of her life, Howard had tried to suppress her femininity. It wasn’t until...
After a near 30 year battle, the Supreme Court has cleared Peter Ellis.
While he may not have been alive to see it, the Supreme Court has today quashed Peter Ellis’ child abusive convictions.
The court found the convictions were a, "substantial miscarriage of justice.”
Ellis was working as a childcare worker at the...
Almost a year to the day since his death, the Supreme Court has ruled that Peter Ellis’s appeal against his sexual offending convictions will be heard.
The New Zealand Supreme Court has ruled Peter Ellis’s appeal against his historic convictions will proceed, despite his death in 2019.
The case has...
As Peter Ellis fights his terminal bladder cancer diagnosis, the former creche worker is one step closer to clearing his name.
Peter Ellis is one step closer to clearing the 13 convictions he has in relation to sexually abusing seven children during the early 1990s in Christchurch.
The former Christchurch civic...
