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It remains one of New Zealand’s most shameful episodes; a police force rife with homophobia, a mob of hysterical parents and a seemingly irrational collection of specialist agencies.
Childcare worker Peter Ellis faced accusations that included satanic rituals, underground tunnels, cages hung from ceilings, children being buried alive, cooked and murdered and even zoo animals.
Now, in never-before-seen interviews, Peter Ellis as you've never seen him before - and the state apparatus that convicted an innocent gay man is laid bare as it happens.
Peter Ellis, the creche case and me pulls you into a time of fear and hysteria when a kind of madness gripped Christchurch, resulting in a miscarriage of justice that would take 30 years to put right.
