He wants justice, he says, and is bringing a claim to the Police Complaints Authority for wrongful arrest.
"Chopper" says he "went through hell" and claims the rape charge and two years in jail are what made him ill and led him to make several attempts to take his life.
He was on methadone for many years, but managed to get off the medication, and now maintains his sobriety through Narcotics Anonymous meetings.
In his younger days he went toe-to-toe with the police, but that's in the past - he's 56 now and sees things differently, though he is still with Black Power.
He got into the gang because that is what was happening in the cities in the 1970s.
"It was a whanau - all came in to work in the city and we formed there. We were all different Maori from all over and we carried on as whanau ... it's what you usually did. We protected each other."
