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Arthur Allan Thomas in court
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A two-week trial in Manukau District Court started today, 40 years after Thomas was released from prison and compensated with nearly $1 million.
Thomas, now 83, faces one charge of rape and four charges of indecent assault, relating to two complainants, which he strongly denies.
Thomas story is one of the most extraordinary legal chapters in New Zealand history.
An innocent man subjected to a near decade-long prison sentence in large part because police officers planted evidence - a spent bullet casing matching Thomas gun - at the Crewes house.
Now, 40 years after a Royal Commission cleared him and he walked out of prison a free man, he is being tried again under the same Coat of Arms.
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Summer reads: Infamous New Zealand murders that still grip the nation
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The New Zealand Herald is bringing back some of the best premium stories of 2020. Today we look at three infamous murders that continue to grip the nation. Crewe cold case: Fifty years and no answers
On June 17, 1970 Harvey and Jeanette Crewe were gunned down in the living room of their Pukekawa farmhouse and dumped into the nearby Waikato River.
Fifty years on, theories still swirl around the whodunnit, which has been the subject of two trials, a Royal Commission of Inquiry and a major police review following the conviction and pardon of accused murderer Arthur Allan Thomas.