The jury in a 55-year-old Taranaki rape case retired to consider its verdict at 2.15pm today.
The four women and eight men were told by Justice Tony Randerson in his summing up in the High Court at New
Plymouth that they must disregard the time delay.
"In cases of this kind, there is no time limit within which the Crown must bring criminal charges.
"In the end, you have to decide whether the events happened even if they happened many years ago," he said.
A 77-year-old man has pleaded not guilty to two counts of rape, one of indecent assault and one of procuring a miscarriage. The charges involve his sister-in-law who was five when the alleged abuse began.
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