Trevor Mallard apologises for accusing Parliamentary staffer of rape

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Sub of the House Trevor Mallard has really apologised for the “distress and humiliation” he caused an individual after choice comments which amounted to an accusation of rape.

In an RNZ interview in May in 2010, where he was talking about the Debbie Francis report on bullying, Mallard said: “We’re talking about serious sexual assault, well that, for me, could rape… that is the impression I comes from the report, yes”.

But in a statement from Mallard released this afternoon, he said that a large amount of his comments gave the “impression that allegations made against that a person in the context of the Francis Reviewed amounted to rape”.

“Trevor Mallard accepts which will his understanding of the definition of rape at that time was incorrect and that the pretexted conduct did not amount to rape (as that term is defined using the Crimes Act 1961) and that it was incorrect of him to point to otherwise, ” the statement stated that.

“Trevor Mallard apologises for the distress and embarrassment his statements caused to the various and his family. ”

It is understood Mallard was likely advised to apologise.

The statement said that Mallard had provided a personal apology from the individual and both parties consider this ıssue is now closed.

How the saga unfolded

In June last year, Mallard said that he believed a rapist was working in the parliamentary area a day after the Francis review of our parliamentary workplace was released.

The report found systemic issues of bullying and harassment, poor conduct too often tolerated as well as normalised, and a perception of very affordable accountability. Mallard himself commissioned currently the report after a series of cases and are generally bad behaviour.

Mallard had said that he regarded as a man was responsible for three severe sexual assaults mentioned in the assessment, and that he believed the man was still working out at Parliament.

His comments – called it could be by some parliamentary workers it is the sparked a series of turbulent events your led to a historical assault claims and a parliamentary staffer being withstood down.

Mallard then said that a threat across safety had been removed from the driveway.

The staffer then lashed out at Mallard, saying he felt bullied right out the workplace and was the victim of Mallard’s “slanderous” comments.

After Mallard made the comments, a fellow – who had been stood down provided by Parliament – told Newstalk ZB he felt bullied out of the drafting.

He had said at the time he wanted an apology for what he described as the Speaker’s “slanderous” comments.

The man claimed the three allegations seemed to be related to hugging a colleague, complimenting another colleague on her hair, while kissing another on her cheek as he said goodbye to her after that she visited him and his wife at tea.

Yet , the first complainant alleged he hugged her from behind, pushing ones groin up against her, and that he came to be staring at the breasts of the lady friend who’s hair he complimented.

He believes another space for a rear complainant was put up to overnight accommodation the complaint by someone else.

The man was viewed by Parliamentary Services, which considered the claims were unsubstantiated.