While the Wairarapa Police continue to persecute innocent people and refuse to acknowledge or investigate complaints in general from the victims of crime, it's concerning indeed to note their continuing refusal to charge certain local violent offenders - people who pose a real risk to the community, like Ronald Charles Peacock, the person who is the subject of this news report above, who assaulted a woman with a knife in a usually quiet residential street, and then assaulted her with a motor vehicle - no matter how compelling the evidence against them.
The attack was clearly witnessed. The problem is that witnesses are threatened, subtly and not so subtly, by Police and local media, who breach their privacy and spread untrue rumours throughout the community, and encourage the offenders to further harm the victims in response to victims' complaints about Police misconduct.
Police continue to refuse to charge the perpetrator, Ronald Peacock, despite the fact that there is clearly indisputable evidence of a crime having been committed, including a statement from the offender himself, which boasts that he went to the address where the assaults took place to seek revenge for an anonymous letter he alleges was sent "via his doctor".
The attack was completely unprovoked - the attacker drove aggressively toward the victim and shouted at her to pass on a message to a mutual acquaintance. The victim, not wanting to get involved with any interaction between the offender, and the acquaintance responded by saying "Tell him yourself", whereupon the assaults were committed in full view of the witness and the whole street.
Here is a typed transcript of the statement Peacock made when interviewed regarding the attack (the original handwritten Police notebook entry will be added as soon as we remove the victim's name from it). It has been made crystal clear to the writer that the victim is NOT Mr Harris's "missus" at all. Mr Harris refers to her as "a woman I know" and both he and the victim have repeatedly stated to Police that the victim is not Mr Harris's "missus" - the Police and Ronald Peacock repeatedly try and link the victim with Mr Harris despite all the evidence to the contrary, in a blatant effort to cook up some "excuse" for the assaults:
Lloyd McKayThis is absolutely outrageous - Peacock admitted to Police that he had gone there and confronted the victim and there is more than enough evidence to establish a prima facie case! The ongoing refusal of Police to prosecute this offender, and to pervert the course of justice by lying to the Judge on the rare occasion they are actually forced to initiate a prosecution against him - such as when he bashed the victim at the Masterton Court and terrorised everyone in the near vicinity - has become blatantly unacceptable.
Constable
Notebook entry 9 January 2014
Event PO16022473
20:45 Clifton Ave re
20:59 10/7 ??? Lincoln Rd? Carterton
? Speak to Ronald Peacock.
Peacock admits going to Clifton Ave in his vehicle and speaking with Lee Harris's missus - [Name of victim withheld for reasons of personal safety].
He says he warned her not to threaten him or his family as he received a letter in the post today.
He (Peacock) believed the letter was posted to him - via his Dr (Doctor Cherry of the Carterton Medical Centre) by Lee Harris.
Peacock then showed me the letter.
Photograph then taken of both letter and envelope.
Peacock made special mention that rear of letter where senders details are located is that of Whetu Hansen of ? Plasterers and Roofers.
Peacock stated that Whetu Hansen is the missing male from the Manawatu who has gone missing in suspicious circumstances believed to be gang related.
Peacock said "this is Lee Harris's way of doing things. He is threatening me and my family."
Peacock hands letter to me stating "here have it, show the other copper."
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21:25 4Q Clifton Avenue.
Speak with Harris and [Name of victim withheld for reasons of personal safety] with other Police units.
Harris denies sending any letter to Peacock as does [Name of victim withheld for reasons of personal safety].
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22:21 4Q ??? Lincoln Road?
Again speak to Peacock in presence of Sgt Irving.
Also speak to Peacock's new wife Melissa (nee Cherry)
Peacock states they received three phone calls from Harris and [Name of victim withheld for reasons of personal safety] whilst Police at Clifton Ave tonight. Peacock states his home phone number is _____
Peacock given advice about self protection
Warned not to go to Clifton Avenue.
Peacock did not want to make formal complaint but wanted Police informed as to what was going on.
Peacock requested his letter be returned to him once we (Police) have finished with it.
It is outrageous that Police "gave Peacock advice about self protection" instead of arresting and charging him!
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| The happy couple and their wedding party |
A 'news report' published in the Wairarapa Times-Age dated Friday 12 December 2014 refers to the hearing of charges against Peacock for throwing a loaded rifle out of a vehicle after he threatened and intimidated people with it after he assaulted another woman who is related to the target of Peacock's crusade of violence, Mr Harris, in an incident bearing striking similarities to the attacks in Clifton Avenue involving a knife and a motor vehicle, the assault outside the Court, and other recent assaults involving violence and weapons, by Ronald Peacock. This man is a walking time bomb. He needs to be urgently assessed by mental health professionals and drug tested. He is clearly paranoid and delusional and a serious danger to the public.
Ironically, local 'community advocates' like real estate agent Gerry Brooking, and the dodgy journalists at the Wairarapa Times-Age, promoted Ronald Peacock's sister Bridget as a role model for their White Ribbon campaign (formerly featuring disgraced ex MP Georgina Beyer), for 'narking' on her partner for bashing her. Nothing's changed in the Wairarapa, the same old people are running the show, and running the Wairarapa into the ground. Sgt Rix is apparently the officer who assaulted the mother and grandmother of a young person a few years ago, outside the Shell service station in Masterton.
"The allegations were being investigated" my foot. The crimes are being covered up - Police are making excuses not to charge Peacock, who assaulted the woman with a knife and a motor vehicle as Constable Dean Adams and a number of other people stated at the time - the attacks were witnessed - Police should get on with laying charges and stop making up excuses not to.
A few days later, on January 21 2014 the victim's neighbour's house was burnt to the ground, in what Police called a "suspicious fire". A few days after that, the victim's was torched, Police have confirmed that that fire was arson, the cause of the neighbour's fire is unknown. The local paper featured the arson with headlines in the print edition and posters outside all the retail outlets saying "WRONG HOUSE TORCHED?" which can be viewed on their website .
This refusal of the Police to charge violent criminals is well known in the Wairarapa - corrupt local Police conspire to pervert the course of justice on a regular basis, they cover up crime for their mates, and throw child abuse files away. This is the result:
Then on 19 April 2014 Cherie Taylor at the Times-Age write a fictional account (below) of what took place in the Masterton District Court when Ronald Charles Peacock represented himself and unsuccessfully defended himself on charges relating to his attack on the same woman, the victim of the arson, and the knife attack and attempted hit and run, this was yet another attack, this time it happened right outside - and inside - the Masterton District Court. Contrary to Taylor's lies there was no evidence whatsoever of any "heated feud" between the offender and the victim, or that the victim "spun her car around", because neither thing happened.
Cherie Taylor also plays along with bent prosecutor Garry Wilson in sending a very clear message to anyone else considering doing the right thing, such as the one witness who Wilson called despite the fact that there were at least half a dozen witnesses who worked right there in the Court and at the car yard right over the road, Wilson forced this other witness to take a day off work and travel over 100 kms to Masterton and back to face Ronald Charles Peacock angrily and ineptly cross examining him and threatening him AND his wife, who was also required to take a day off work to accompany and support her husband during this unnecessarily stressful ordeal.
Cherie Taylor is very well aware of what a dangerous and violent criminal Ronald Peacock is, and the fact that she has gratuitously and unnecessarily named the witness as well as the victim several times, stated his occupation, etc is inexcusable, and the fact that her 'report' also makes a point of stating that the witness only received $25 for doing the right thing while not one of the other witnesses working a the Court and at the motor dealership over the road was summoned apparently, although their statements to Police make it abundantly clear that they saw Peacock strike the victim and saw him further threaten and assault her as well.
The message is if you stick up for victims of violence in the Wairarapa you can expect to be forced to take a day off work to come to the circus of a Court hearing, bringing a support person because you will be too stressed to drive afterward I can assure you. You can expect to be reimbursed the paltry sum of $25 for this, you can expect to be threatened and have your wife and family threatened during this circus of a Court hearing, and you can then expect to be named and targeted by the local hack reporters as well, as they seek to spin the line that the victim somehow asked for it. Here is what they printed with my comments in italics and brackets:
"Assault after heated feud results in fine:
By cherie.taylor@age.co.nzOn 12 December 2014 there was another report in the local paper, which stated that Ronald Charles Peacock had been convicted of assaulting a woman, throwing a loaded rifle out of the window of his vehicle on a busy public road, a rifle he was convicted of possessing unlawfully. "Jail avoided over firearms offence" trumpets Taylor.
6:00 AM Saturday Apr 19, 2014
With an "axe to grind" [name withheld for reasons of personal safety] spun her car around outside the courthouse and confronted Ronald Charles Peacock about a fire at her house. [Not according to all the witness statements, her driving was perfectly normal.]
He then punched her in the nose. [that's right, punched her in the nose. After he boasted about burning down her house. There's nothing normal about that. Many people saw him do this,and saw him chase her inside the Court in a further attack and a violent rampage which endangered members of the public as well as Court staff.]
Peacock was convicted by Judge Bruce Davidson of assaulting [name of victim withheld for reasons of personal safety] following a defended hearing in Masterton District Court this week.
He claimed she had injured herself. [Yes indeed. He claimed she had injured herself. In full view of everyone at the public Court, including all the Court staff, all the people who worked at the car dealership right over the road (who all made statements to Police), all the members of the general public who were present at Court that day, and his newly married wife. He claimed that she must have just punched herself in the face because there was nobody else around and he denied the gutless attack on a small vulnerable harmless woman.]
Peacock represented himself at the hearing, [which was dangerous and disturbing for all present. It revealed a lot about his mental state, and that was also disturbing and dangerous.] Judge Davidson appointed lawyer Peter Stevens as amicus curiae to help him. [Judge Davidson actually appointed lawyer Peter Stevens as Ronald Peacock's defence lawyer due to a serious procedural error by the Registrar. According to Judge Davidson, the Registrar told him that Peacock was entitled to a legal aid funded lawyer when that was not the case at all, and given that the assaults happened right in front of Court staff, it's a bit of a shocking indictment on all concerned that the free lawyer, the Police prosecutor, the newspaper reporter and the victim advisor and Judge and Registrar were all seated on the far side of the offender during the whole Court hearing and there was nothing whatsoever between the offender and the victim, despite her repeated requests for a screen to be provided.]
Police prosecutor Sergeant Garry Wilson said there had been an ongoing dispute between the pair resulting in an argument outside the court on February 19 and Peacock punching her. [He leaves out the bit about Ronald Peacock chasing her inside the Court in a violent rampage and further assaulting her, burning down her house, attacking her with a big knife, trying to run her over, etc.]
In evidence, [Witnesses name and occupation withheld for reasons of personal safety] said he heard the commotion from inside his car parked outside the courthouse.
He heard a woman screaming and Peacock yelling back at her to "stay away from me".
[Witnesses name withheld for reasons of personal safety] told the court the pair kept arguing and Peacock punched her to the face with his right fist.
"She had blood on her nose," he said. [Well that sounds fairly clear doesn't it.]
In evidence, [The victim] said she had known Peacock for five years.
On the morning Peacock hit her, [The victim] said she was driving past the courthouse when she heard Peacock yelling at her so she spun around and parked up. [No she didn't. She had been advised by a lawyer that it may be necessary to instigate a private prosecution against the offender if Police continued to refuse to charge him, or even investigate her complaints. None of the witnesses stated or inferred anything untoward about the manner in which the victim drove or parked her vehicle.
She confronted him about the fire, when she got hit. [Well that's fairly clear]
[The victim] said she was "100 per cent sure" Peacock had head butted her not punched her. [He was aggressively jerking his head and arms and screaming in her face and she literally didn't see what hit her. There was nobody else who it could have been because nobody else was there who it could have been.]
She told the court she believed Peacock had burnt her house. [Because that's what the Fire Investigators had told her they believed to be the most likely cause of the fire.[
"I was traumatised and stressed. I was distressed ... we have lost everything ... I was asking Ron why he did what he did. He started yelling in my face. It became heated. He was intimidating me ... he then said you want to play the game and he smashed me on the top of the nose ... I was frightened."
In cross examination Peacock put to [The victim] that she was set on confronting him but she denied this.
"You are a violent man ... I do believe you burnt down my home ... I was badly traumatised."
Peacock said [The victim] had yelled "it's not over". [Not according to the witnesses.]
"I kept telling her to stay away." [As he advanced menacingly on the victim and chased her into the Courthouse still screaming at her, threatening her, trying to assault her and terrorising the Court staff and the general public as well as the victim.
Judge Davidson said it was clear emotions had been running high between the pair at the time of the assault. [No shit Sherlock.]
"You both have an axe to grind with each other ... others have been dragged into the circle of dispute." [This is utter nonsense - and totally untrue. Fire investigators had informed the victim that they believed that the defendant was responsible for the arson of both her and the arson of her neighbour's house. The evidence given established that the victim has never harboured any resentment against the offender until he assaulted her in Clifton Avenue.]
Mr [Name of witness withheld for reasons of personal safety] was a credible witness, the judge said. "It is clear there was an assault." [We have chosen not to name the witness, for the protection of him and his family. The witnesses wife was intimidated in the adjournment and the offender was spoken to by the Judge about also threatening the victim during one of the adjournments.].
He convicted Peacock and ordered he pay $25 in witness expenses and fined him $400. [There is no mention of Court costs, reparation of course, victim offender levy, and the sentence is an absolute insult to the victim and the only other witness who was forced to attend.]
"Ronald Charles Peacock, 42, was sentenced to home detention after earlier pleading guilty to charges of assault, unlawfully having a firearm and driving while disqualified.Judge Barbara Morris needs to be informed forthwith that she was deceived if she was informed that Peacock had no convictions for violent offences since 2011 because that is not the case.
Loud clapping erupted from supporters in the public gallery in Masterton District Court as Ronald Charles Peacock was sentenced to home detention.
The 42-year-old of Carterton, who had been remanded in custody since he threw a loaded sawn-off firearm out of his car window after assaulting a rival associate's adult daughter, previously pleaded guilty to charges of assault, unlawful possession of a firearm and driving while disqualified.
Lawyer Michael Bott said there was a background of "long extensive provocation and harassment" between his client and the victim's father and argued home detention was an appropriate one as his client was making positive changes.
"There are strong mitigating circumstances ... He is changing his lifestyle. The prospects are encouraging," he said.
Judge Barbara Morris said it was dangerous for Peacock to have thrown a loaded rifle onto the street.
"The gun could have gone off."
She said Peacock had a significant history of violent offending but was tackling his drug addiction and was in a positive supportive relationship.
There were positive steps Peacock was making, she added.
Peacock was sentenced to four months' home detention with six months' special conditions to follow.
"There has been nothing with violence since 2011 ... because of the promise you hold ... the steps you have taken, the support of your wife and your motivation to change, this is not the normal sentence."
As Peacock walked from the dock the public gallery erupted with loud clapping from a large number of his supporters.
Peacock bashed a woman right outside the Court and followed her inside threatening her after he almost broke her nose, looking to bash her and intimidate her a bit further on 19 February 2014 - while he was on bail for 'allegedly' being caught by Police in possession of knives and pistols.
Peacock is well known in the community as a gutless wonder who attacks and assaults women who he believes are related in some way with the real target of his homicidal rage, Mr Harris. Too scared to pick on someone his own size (and Mr Harris is half the size of Ronald Peacock anyway) - Ronald gets to work out at the taxpayer's expense as he languishes in jail at Her Majesty's pleasure, fed and housed by you and I, and training daily in the gym - since he cut off his home detention electronic monitoring device repeatedly after Judge Barbara Morris let him off with a slap on the wrist in the erroneous belief that he had no convictions since 2011!
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| The victim enters the Court after being punched in the face by Ronald Peacock, after being advised by a lawyer to collect papers from the Court regarding a private prosecution of Peacock for an earlier attack, after Police continue to corruptly refuse to charge him, despite charging the victim of one of Peacock's earlier serious assaults on the basis of the most ridiculous "statement" I have ever read. |
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| Peacock chased the terrified victim, who is covered in blood, inside after punching her in the face. |
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| Peacock continues to attack the victim in the Court house. |
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| Peacock assaults the woman again, raising his fist as he threatens her. |
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| Staff shout for the Court security guards and Police as the attacker continues his assault. |
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| Court security guards finally intervene, and a short time later detain Peacock till Police arrive. The fat bald fellow on the right is Phil Patterson, husband of Masterton Mayor Lyn Patterson. Police protected yn Patterson after she was involved in the fraud at the former Carterton Community Centre during her employment at the Carterton District Council, and she and her husband were rewarded with new jobs, as Mayor and Court bailiff respectively. |
Peacock assaulted the victim with a large knife and a motor vehicle on 8 January 2014 in Clifton Avenue in Carterton, the evidence in that matter certainly met the Solicitor General's guidelines for Prosecution as stated in the letter to Police from Ian Hard, despite the claims by Police to the contrary.
No surprises that Peacock was represented by slimy, bent, politically ambitious lawyer Michael Bott.
Who exactly informed Judge Barbara Morris that Peacock had no convictions for violence since 2011? Just who are the Police and the Court staff protecting, because it seems to be the violent offenders and their families and associates rather than the victims.
The so called 'justice system' has just sunk to a new low and so have the New Zealand Police - the evidence is absolutely indisputable. Ronald Peacock and members of the local Police force are fond of repeating the phrase "Lee Harris is a nark" ad infinitum - we think it is indisputably obvious who the local nark is and it's not Mr Harris.
It is also indisputably obvious that the statements made by Ronald and Melissa Peacock contain deliberate untruths and are a blatant attempt to pervert the course of justice, as well as strongly indicating the effects of heavy methamphetamine use, such as violence, paranoia and aggression.
It is unbelievable that Police saw fit to record either Melissa Peacock's statement about her 'freaking out' about Mr Harris inadvertently driving into a merging lane near her ( - not to mention the potentially perjurous allegations contained in the statements made to Police by her and her new husband, especially the one about Mr Harris driving like a madman and overtaking her and a non existent ambulance repeatedly despite being proven a liar in the Court) - or the rambling 'statement to Police' made by Ronald Peacock on 27 February 2014 - the day the news report about his assault on the victim at the Court was published.
The record of the Court transcript also makes it crystal clear that Mr Harris, to his credit, bears no ill will whatsoever toward Mr Peacock's wife - despite her deliberately making a false complaint to Police against him, and wasting his time and the time of the Police and the Court on her abject nonsense and blatant lies.
Meanwhile the editor of the local paper pontificates as if anyone gives a flying fox about his ignorant, self focused, ill informed, Johnny-come-lately 'opinion'
