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The woman at the centre of the latest historic sex charges against assistant police commissioner Clint Rickards and former officers Brad Shipton and Bob Schollum is planning a new life in Australia, a media report today says.
The trio were acquitted of kidnapping and indecently assaulting the woman, then aged 16, in Rotorua in the 1980s, this month.
The trio were also found not guilty of raping Louise Nicholas in 1986 during a case last year.
The latest alleged victim's friend Clair Newcombe told a Sunday newspaper that the woman wants to leave her Bay of Plenty home, her part-time job and move with her children to Perth this year.
There she would be close to a family member and away from people who knew she was involved in the court case.
"She wants a fresh start away from it all," Ms Newcombe said.
- NZPA
