Child rapist attacked
PA Auckland Takapuna detectives will move into Paremoremo Prison today to find out who attacked James Edmund Roland Arnold on Sunday, two days after he had been convicted of the multiple rape of a Filipino girl. Arnold, aged 46,- was found bleeding and semiconscious in the television room in the classification
wing of the prison after being jailed on Friday for 14 years on seven charges of rape and two of inducing a girl, aged 12, to perform indecent acts on him. The former Meadowbank company manager is in Middlemore Hospital awaiting surgery today for a broken Cheekbone and facial injuries. His condition last night was described as satisfactory.
While in hospital he wifi be under prison guard. Nine inmates have been interviewed by prison staff so far. Last July, another Paremoremo inmate, Keith Ross Hall, died soon after being found with severe stab wounds. He was serving a life term for the rape and murder of Delphina Lynette Phillips, aged 10, in 1977.
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