Coercion unfounded

Coercion unfounded
By mike peters May. 20 (BusinessDesk) - Allegations police coerced a woman into confessing to involvement in two South Island murders in the 1990s have been declared unfounded. The Independent Police Conduct Authority (IPCA) today released a report on its examination of police conduct relating to Joyce Conwell's convictions for the attempted murder of psychiatric patient Doreen Middlemiss, 62, in Dunedin in June 1998, and the murder of Alec Rodgers in Christchurch in September 1999. The IPCA found two aspects of the police investigatio...