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Winston Wealleans Passes After Decades Advocating for Peter Ellis | Christchurch News
Winston Wealleans, the passionate advocate who spent decades fighting for the innocence of Peter Ellis — a man convicted in 1993 of horrific abuse at Christchurch’s Civic Creche — has died at 85. Even after Ellis’s own death in 2022, Wealleans never wavered, calling the conviction a grave miscarriage of justice and blaming systemic institutions rather than Ellis. His daughter recalls his lifelong dedication to this cause, and his passing closes a chapter in one of New Zealand’s most controversial legal cases — now officially overturned by the Supreme Court in 2025. Wealleans lived by his…
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