Farmer who along with her husband, Harvey Crewe, died in a double murder, or possibly a murder-suicide, around 17 June 1970. A local farmer Arthur Allan Thomas was twice convicted of their murders but later given a Royal Pardon on the 17th December 1979.
Crewe, Jeannette Lenore, 1940-1970
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Better late than never... 22 October 2010
Date: 2010
From: Bromhead, Peter, 1933- :Digital cartoons
Reference: DCDL-0015880
Description: The cartoon is entitled 'Better late than never' and shows a policeman sitting in a chair reading a book called 'Whodunnit? The Crewe case'. On the wall a clock tick tocks loudly. A senior investigator has been appointed to "conduct a thorough analysis and assessment" of the Crewe homicide file in an endeavour to answer questions raised by Rochelle Crewe, who was 18 months old when her parents, Harvey and Jeannette, were murdered in their Pukekawa farmhouse south of Auckland in 1970. Rochelle Crewe broke her silence in the Herald to call for the police to re-open the case 40 years after her parents Jeannette and Harvey Crewe were murdered. Arthur Allan Thomas was twice convicted of the Crewes' murders but was pardoned in 1979 after serving nine years in prison and no one else has been charged. Thomas has welcomed news the police will review the 40-year-old murder case, but is not expecting much to come from it. (NZ Herald - 21 October 2010) Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).
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"Orders from above, drop those and work on this..." 23 October 2010
Date: 2010
From: Scott, Thomas, 1947- :[Digital cartoons published in the Dominion Post]
Reference: DCDL-0015893
Description: A harried police detective sits at his computer with a huge stack of 'recent homicides' beside him. A colleague hands him a dossier entitled 'Crewe murders 1970' and tells him that he has orders from above to drop what he is doing and work on the Crewe case. A senior investigator has been appointed to "conduct a thorough analysis and assessment" of the Crewe homicide file in an endeavor to answer questions raised by Rochelle Crewe, who was 18 months old when her parents, Harvey and Jeannette, were murdered in their Pukekawa farmhouse south of Auckland in 1970. Rochelle Crewe broke her silence in the Herald to call for the police to re-open the case 40 years after her parents Jeannette and Harvey Crewe were murdered. Arthur Allan Thomas was twice convicted of the Crewes' murders but was pardoned in 1979 after serving nine years in prison and no one else has been charged. Thomas has welcomed news the police will review the 40-year-old murder case, but is not expecting much to come from it. (NZ Herald - 21 October 2010) Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).
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Evans, Malcolm Paul, 1945- :[Every Policeman's burden]. 10 April 2013
Date: 2013
From: Evans, Malcolm Paul, 1945- :Digital cartoons
Reference: DCDL-0024514
Description: Shows a police officer carrying on his shoulders a huge round medal labelled, ICI, which is tagged, 'Crewe murders exhibit 350'. Text reads, 'Every policeman's burden'. Refers to the death of Detective Chief Inspector Bruce Hutton, the police officer who was found to have planted evidence in an investigation into the 1970 murders of Pukekawa farmers Harvey and Jeanette Crewe, in one of country's most famous cases. The case has never been solved. (One News, 10 April 2013) Colour and black and white versions available Quantity: 2 digital cartoon(s).
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Doyle, Martin, 1956- :[Beyond Reasonable Reproach]. 20 June 2013
Date: 2013
From: Doyle, Martin Maurice Michael Thomas, 1956- :Digital cartoons
By: Scoop (Firm)
Reference: DCDL-0025256
Description: An angry crowd of people appear including police and politicians, complaining about the inappropriate behaviour of MPS Phil Goff and Trevor Mallard during a law and order select committee. Commentary from the artist reads 'In the stifling of Phil Goff and Trevor Mallard we see the present government move from spinning the truth to suppressing the truth. One of the issues the MPs tried to raise before being stifled in the Committee hearing was the use of the term by Mike Bush "integrity beyond reproach" to describe the late Bruce Hutton (who had been found by a Commission of Inquiry to have planted evidence to unfairly convict Arthur Allan Thomas of the murders of Jeannette and Harvey Crewe). A very influential book leading to Thomas' eventual release from jail was "Beyond Reasonable Doubt" The title of the cartoon "Beyond Reasonable Reproach" is a reference to this. The cartoon depicts Police Commissioner Peter Marshall, Deputy Commissioner Mike Bush, Police Minister Anne Tolley, Law and Order Committee Chair Jacqui Dean, MPs Phil Goff and Trevor Mallard, the late Bruce Hutton, and the late Jeannette and Harvey Crewe.' Title from file name Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).