And neither attacks were his first time before the courts for a sex crime, it can now be revealed. However strict suppression orders meant the New Zealand Herald could only report on the charges relating to the Riverhead quarry attack. Identical DNA was taken from a rape victim in 1992. Another section of the trial that was suppressed until today was 'propensity evidence' presented to the jury about another rape Mitchell committed in 1985. "It was definitely not consensual, most definitely not," the victim told the court during her evidence last week.

Source: Otago Daily Times March 01, 2018 23:15 UTC