subject to a high level of public debate about suppression orders in New Zealand Courts, and admissibility of evidence after a Dominion Post article in 2004. The evidence that at the time of the trial two of the three men were serving jail sentences for an unrelated rape of another woman in the 1980s was suppressed by the Courts in accordance with New Zealand law. Women's groups broke suppression orders by publicising the details with flyers and on the internet. After the end of the second case, suppression orders were lifted and there was widespread publicity given to the fact that Shipton and Schollum had been convicted in 2005 of unlawful sexual connection. Schollum is currently serving a prison sentence. Shipton was released in November 2008 after serving 3 years of his -year sentence. Rickards was suspended from his position in early 2004 and resigned from the police on 22 November 2007. Advocacy work Nicholas has worked as a survivor advocate for Rape Prevention Education and has served on the Tauiwi Caucus of the Executive Committee of Te Ohaakii a Hine – National Network Ending Sexual Violence Together. In 2015, she was the patron of a class of police recruits at the Royal New Zealand Police College and involved in mentoring and advising the recruits during their training. A year after the media investigations led to historical sex charges against the police officers in Nicholas’ case, she published her best selling book in 2007. With help from co-author and investigative journalist Philip Kitchin, Nicholas revealed the role of the former chief inspector in the Rotorua criminal investigation branch in obstructing prior rape trials. In 2009, Louise Nicholas won the role of the “survivor advocate” who reports to government task force on sexual violence. Many believed that Nicholas was the perfect fit for this role, considering she had been advocating against sexual violence since her own high-profile rape case unfolded. Nicholas was then given government funding for a year to collect the stories of other sexual assault and violence victims for schools, health professionals and policy makers. Over the next year of her research she planned on developing a project on discussing the themes that come from survivors of sexual assault and violence and its effects. Her research was planned to feed into a task force on sexual violence and reporting on issues such as, how victims can be better supported