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Convicted rapist and former policeman Robert Francis Schollum is to be released on parole.
In a decision issued today, the Parole Board said that Schollum would be released, though it withheld the date.
While he faced standard conditions which are to continue for the whole of his eight-year sentence, Schollum also faced a number of special conditions.
These include not communicating with his co-offenders or their victim, and that he not give any interviews about his trial, conviction, sentence, imprisonment, appeal or parole.
Last week former police officer and co-accused Brad Shipton was released from Wanganui prison after serving three years of an 8-1/2 year sentence for his part in the 1989 rape of a woman in Mt Maunganui.
Co-accused Peter McNamara was released in January after serving a third of his seven-year sentence.
Schollum, Shipton and former police assistant commissioner Clint Rickards were cleared in 2006 of raping Rotorua woman Louise Nicholas in the 1980s.
- NZPA
