Dear Mr Rickard,
I chanced across 2 historical blogs that you wrote about my wife Kristin Dunne-Powell.
I would ask that you remove them as totally inaccurate and utter rubbish with defamatory statements that defy belief and any form of sense.
Your conclusions about my wife, Mr Veitch and the whole episode are so wrong they are almost laughable - except when it is your wifes name that someone is so inaccurately criticising.
Please remove the blog to prevent me taking any further action about your statements that have absolutely no basis or public record to support.
And for the record ... my wife was severely attacked by Mr Veitch and his PR guru Glenda Hughes in the mainstream media for 9 months .. how is it you are the only person who seemed to have missed that the bulk of the media coverage was designed to suck gullible people like you believe Tony Veitch's utter crap, and paint my wife as someone she is not.
The charges were not dropped my wife agreed to a plea bargain to end what had become senseless and to spare Mr Veitch any further mental deterioration.
Your blog is evidence of why New Zealand has such appalling rate of domestic violence and I kindly ask you again to remove it.
Morgan Powell.
Hi Morgan,
the blog articles are my opinion based on reportings and facts from the media put out by your wife's side and Veitch's and the confusion surrounding that, so they are in the public domain.
In addition, while I don't support violence at all, I find some of your wife's retelling of her story fanciful to say the least. They contain holes you can drive a truck through.
I don't like Veitch at all. Never have, never will but I find his sustained character assassination by your wife's media and legal team, to the point of suicide despicable to say the least.
If your lot had any concern about his mental health you would have let this whole thing blow over instead of dragging it out in public.
Darren Rickard
Darren,
From someone who knows the truth, mate you could not have it more wrong.
We (and I do say we here, as my wife and I handled this together) did not have a media team other than unpaid ex-colleagues of Kristins who helped to fend them off and make no comment, and we did not need a legal team (as it was the crown vs Mr Veitch). We have recently needed a lawyer due to continued threats by your "good" guy. And of course there was the one we used to come to the agreement with Mr Veitch to settle all this in the first place, which my wife has never broken.
I ask you again to remove your "opinion" as it is both defamatory and inaccurate and to remove the photograph of her that you may or may not have the permission from the Herald on Sunday to run.
My wife has always been very concerned and mindful of Mr Veitch's mental health, and I have always been very mindful of hers. I say to you again that 80% of what was reported in the papers was fed by Mr Veitch and Glenda Hughes and if you went back through the wad of articles we have stored away you would see more clearly that in fact it was my wife being attacked, and trust me she has felt pretty desperate herself in the last 10 months - mainly due to cruel, ill informed, judgemental people like yourself. As for Veitch's attempts that is not a new pattern for him, and the reason my wife stayed with him all along. He needs help, and we hope he gets it.
So take the truck you drive through my wifes very scant account of what actually occured and park it up. Perhaps if you feel you can drive holes through what little she has said, it is because she is refraining from telling the full story. But no, you would rather believe the worst of her, which is fine actually, but keep those ill thought through opinions to yourself, and take the defamatory comments about her of the world wide web.
The next email will come from our lawyers, so I ask politely again that you remove your blogs.
To clarify, this email and the previous email are private and confidential and I do not authorise their publication or your discussion of them. (just in case you thought otherwise)
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