In never-before-seen footage and interviews, this gripping new series takes you inside one of New Zealand’s most controversial legal cases, when a kind of madness gripped Christchurch, resulting in a miscarriage of justice that would take 30 years to put right.
Peter Ellis, the creche case & me is an 8-part Newsroom Investigates video series and podcast presented by Melanie Reid. WATCH EPISODE 3 ABOVE OR LISTEN TO THE PODCAST
By mid-1992 Christchurch was enmeshed in a fear-driven hysteria that the unthinkable was not just possible, but highly likely.
Centre stage was a young gay man perplexed at how on earth people could believe claims that he kept giraffes in his back yard, buried a boy called Andrew in a coffin and cooked kittens.
As the firestorm of rumour and speculation raged, it grew from fear that a lone male crèche worker had abused children in his care to the possibility of an ever-expanding sex ring of …