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Brad Shipton - Source: ONE News -
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Convicted pack rapist Brad Shipton could be locked up again just a few months after being released from jail.
There are allegations he has breached his parole conditions and will have to defend the claims in court and at a Parole Board hearing.
There was a hostile reception for ONE News at the home of Shipton where a man was not happy to see a camera after Shipton was accused of breaching parole conditions.
"Don't take photographs of my house there or I'll stick that thing where you get it. If that's hitting me you're in trouble. you got it?" the man says.
He says Shipton has not been at the house for four days.
Shipton was jailed in 2005 with Bob Schollum and Peter McNamara for an historic pack rape.
When Shipton was let out of jail a few weeks before Christmas, his victim was not happy.
"No justice. Twenty nine months in prison for serious crime is not enough," said the victim.
Shipton was released with strict parole conditions, banning him from meeting with his co-offenders.
But early on Thursday, ONE News got a tip off that someone told police they had seen Shipton having a coffee with McNamara in Mount Maunganui - a claim police seem to believe as they have charged him with breaching parole.
A breach of this nature really upsets the community and the community will be very, very angry if this is so," says Ken Evans of the Sensible Sentencing Trust.
Shipton also faces a Parole Board recall hearing. His lawyer Bill Nabney told ONE News it should be easy to defend.
"That is emphatically denied by Mr Shipton and somewhat fortuitously he has some CCTV footage taken in Auckland showing him enter a building in Auckland at 9:42am the day he was supposed to be meeting this other person," says Nabney.
Nabney says there is "absoloutly no way" Shipton could have been having coffee at Mount Maunganui one minute prior to being in Auckland.
Any evidence will now be handed to police. Shipton is due back in court next week.
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