Craig,
I rang your office on Friday afternoon and told your
secretary that I have been charged with two criminal acts, 2634
-Indecent Assault On Boy Under 12 and 2631- Indecently Assaults Female
Under 12.
The accusation is baseless, and my recollection of events is here: http://www.thebakerstory.yolasite.com/complaint1
The point is, I was visited at my home after I rang the police on
Thursday 11th October 2012 to say I had been driving down Church Street
in Maketu when a man had run out onto the street in front of me carrying
what looked like a brick or a rock. He stood in the road in front of my
car, so I had to slow to a crawl to avoid running into him, however I
had only been driving at about 20kph.
He threww the brick with
extreme force at my windscreen, but hit the top of my bonnet just by the
windscreen, and smashed the glass, but causing only a couple of large
cracks, and some glass to fall off inside the car. He then punched me in
the face, through my open driver's window, and I sped off and went home.
I found this extremely frightening and traumatic, so I opened a bottle
of wine I had intended to drink in the evening and had three or four
glasses before phoning the Te Puke police to complain. Two police cars
came to my house, probably within an hour of teh incident happening, and
accused me of drinking and driving.
They asked me to accompany
them to the police station in Te Puke, and it was only after I had been
there a short period and had undergone a breath test which was 400,
right on the legal limit, and then another breath test they told me was
over 650 that they asked me if I wanted a blood test, and a nurse was
called from Tauranga. This took about half an hour, and while we were
waiting I was told that a complaint had been made regarding an alleged
sexual assault.
After the blood test was taken and my drivers
license confiscated, I was asked to make a statement on video, which I
did, denying any allegations of any sexual assault, or even touching of
any children.
My question to you, is can I be convicted of
drinking and license suspended before I have had a chance to go to
court, if I am doing so at my place of residence??
What happened was that I had been to see my GP at Papamoa at 9.30, and
had come back to Te Puke, stopping at the supermarket and a couple of
shops, and the recycling centre.
I had then stopped at a local
farm to pick up some cow manure for the garden, and gone to the beach.
After leaving the beach, some time after 12, I can't say exactly, I
drove up to teh top marae at maketu and decided to call at teh house of
Komatua Mr Walters to enqure about the progress of teh restoration of
some carvings. After driving down Church road, where he resides, I
parked my car next to his drive way, and noticed a group of children
sitting on a small hill about a couple of metres from the footpath. They
were right beside Mr Walter's drive way, which runs past Mr Niven Rae's
house. Mr Rae is a maori carver.
Walking up the group, I was
about to ask them who was home and if they had seen anything of Mr
Walters. Here I cannot be clear about the details of how many children
were in the group, exactly how old they were, and whether Mr Rae's
daughter was part of the group or came out of the house. I think she did
immediately come out of the house, and was followed by her brother,
another of thecomplaimnants. She asked me to leave, and I asked her why.
I'm not sure but I think she returned to teh house, and her brother
spoke to me saying "Just leave". I told him I would and I was leaving,
and took a step back, and asked him again why they wanted me to leave,
as I would have to walk past the group who were still seated on the
ground on a small hill in full view of about four or five houses, but on
a vacant section overgrown with long grass. He was begging me to just
leave, so I did. This whole event took a minute or two. I can't be
accurate about the time I arrived, and the time I arrived back at my
house, but the drive is less than a mile.
I got into my car, and
as soon as I had driven 30 metres iit was apparent why he had wanted me
to leave. It was clear somebody had called the man who was standing in
front of my car in teh middle of the road, and which appeared he had
come from my left.
I'd like to know why I was charged with drunk
driving as I hadn't consumed more than the legal limit, and only began
drinking wine after I arrive back at 42 Spence Avenue.
I'd also
like to know why I wasn't given a copy of my complaint to the police.
Did they take my statement to them seriously and formally? They (the
policew who came to my property) did look at the damage to my windscreen
which has not yet been repaired.
Am I allowed to drive even though my driver's license was taken from me? Is this legal?
Are
you available to assist me in this matter, even though I understand
that another lawyer will be appointed for me on the two charges of
indecent assault?
copy to Tony Ryall