23 Jun 2023

Likely no-one will ever be convicted for Lake Alice hospital abuse

From Checkpoint, 5:51 pm on 23 June 2023

It's probable that no-one will ever be convicted for the abuse of patients at Lake Alice psychiatric hospital's notorious child and adolescent unit.

This week the High Court ordered a halt to charges against a former charge nurse at the lower North Island institution in the 1970s.

That man is the only former staff member to face prosecution.

Our reporter Jimmy Ellingham has more.