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Louise Nicholas has written a tell-all book to "set the record straight" and correct impressions some scandalised members of the public hold of her.
"I am sick and tired of being made out to be this awful person that I'm not," she said.
Years of suppression orders around various court cases meant "people were getting the wrong end of the stick", said the 39-year-old Rotorua mother of four. "I didn't come from a dysfunctional family and I wasn't a police whore. I want to put it all in perspective for the people of New Zealand and for the jurors who did not have a lot of the facts before them."
Her book Louise Nicholas: My Story, which is due out on Monday, was co-written by investigative journalist Philip Kitchin, who brought the historic sex allegations against a small band of Bay of Plenty police officers into the open.
She believes that readers will"soon learn why I did what I did".
"These bad things did happen. I tried to do something about it and no one would listen."
However, the final chapter of her story is still to be written. Soon after the book was finished, the news came that suspended assistant police commissioner Clint Rickards and convicted former Rotorua CIB head John Dewar were to lay complaints of perjury against her.
"This could drag on for another year or two," she said, "but it doesn't worry me."
- NZPA
