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Peter Ellis (Peter Hugh McGregor Ellis) was born on 30 March, 1958 in Christchurch, New Zealand, is a New Zealander wrongfully convicted of child abuse (1958–2019). Discover Peter Ellis's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 61 years old?

Popular As Peter Hugh McGregor Ellis
Occupation Childcare worker
Age 61 years old
Zodiac Sign Aries
Born 30 March 1958
Birthday 30 March
Birthplace Christchurch, New Zealand
Date of death 4 September, 2019
Died Place N/A
Nationality New Zealand

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1958

Peter Hugh McGregor Ellis (30 March 1958 – 4 September 2019) was a New Zealand childcare worker who was wrongfully convicted of child sexual abuse.

1975

He left school in 1975 to take up tobacco picking in Motueka.

After two years overseas, he returned to New Zealand.

1980

The Ellis case was one of several similar high-profile child abuse cases around the world in the 1980s and early 1990s as part of the Satanic panic, and has been mentioned as a cause in the decline in the number of male teachers in New Zealand schools.

Two books and numerous articles have been written about the case.

Ellis was the eldest of four children.

His parents were teachers who separated when he was nine.

He then had a part-time job in a bakery in the 1980s which eventually became full-time.

When he left this job and applied for unemployment benefits, authorities discovered he had received dole payments to which he was not entitled.

1986

He was prosecuted and convicted in 1986 of "misleading a social welfare officer" and sentenced to 80 hours community service.

Ellis carried out his community service at the Christchurch Civic Creche.

His supervisor, Dora Reinfeld, later reported that "Peter ... provided some hilarious puppetry shows – one of which we had to abandon as staff and children 'got out of hand'".

Ellis became a relieving worker, and Reinfeld's next monthly report said: "Peter Ellis has fitted in extremely well and puts lots of energy into programme planning. Fantastic team spirit."

Ellis's pre-sentencing report said, "The overall picture gained of Peter Ellis is that of an outgoing, uninhibited, unconventional person given to putting plenty of enthusiasm and energy into his work and social activities, sometimes to the point of being risqué and outrageous."

Before his imprisonment, Ellis had sexual relationships lasting for periods of two to five years with both men and women.

He told Lynley Hood, "In a relationship with a woman I was, for want of a better word, bisexual, and with a man I was monogamous."

Ellis was described by Hood as appearing "blatantly homosexual", due to his bright clothes, long hair, makeup and demeanour.

After his release, he lived an isolated life, settling in the small community of Leithfield Beach in north Canterbury.

1991

In late September 1991, the mother of a four-year-old boy at the creche, a social worker who had herself recovered memories of sexual abuse, bought a black puppy from him.

Ellis showed her son how to identify the puppy's gender.

A few months later, in November 1991, the mother alleged that her son said he "didn't like Peter's black penis".

His mother, who had written a handbook on sexual abuse, concluded her son had been sexually abused.

1993

He was at the centre of one of the country's most enduring judicial controversies, after being found guilty in June 1993 in the High Court on 16 counts of sexual offences involving children in his care at the Christchurch Civic Creche and sentenced to 10 years' imprisonment.

He maintained his innocence until his death 26 years later and was supported by many New Zealanders in his attempts to overturn his convictions, although others believed he was guilty.

Concerns about the reliability of the convictions centred on far-fetched stories told by many of the children (alleging Satanic ritual abuse) and the interview techniques used to obtain their testimony.

1994

In 1994, Ellis took his case to the Court of Appeal which quashed convictions on three of the charges but upheld the sentence.

1999

His conviction and sentence were upheld in his second appearance before the Court of Appeal in October 1999.

2000

In March 2000, former Chief Justice Sir Thomas Eichelbaum was appointed to conduct a ministerial inquiry reviewing the children's evidence.

His report upheld the guilty verdicts.

The same month Governor-General Sir Michael Hardie Boys rejected Ellis' third bid for pardon on the advice of Justice Minister Phil Goff, who was satisfied with Eichelbaum's finding that Ellis had failed to prove his convictions were unsafe.

Ellis refused to attend parole board hearings while in prison because he would have to confess to the crimes in order to obtain early release.

Ellis was eventually released in February 2000 after serving seven years in prison.

After his release, he continued campaigning to clear his name.

2019

In 2019, nineteen years after he was released, he appealed to the Supreme Court to have his conviction overturned.

Although he died of cancer before the appeal could be heard, the Supreme Court allowed the appeal in the interests of justice and delivered a judgment in October 2022.

The Supreme Court quashed Ellis' convictions, finding that there were problems with the evidence of the main prosecution witness, a psychiatrist, and the jury had not been fairly informed of the risk of contamination of the children's evidence.

This marked the first time that a conviction has been quashed posthumously in New Zealand.

In July 2019, Ellis was diagnosed with terminal cancer.

He died on 4 September 2019 while appealing his conviction at the age of 61.

Ellis loved animals and kept rabbits, cats and dogs as pets.