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Laken Maree Rose, 31, repeatedly gave evidence that she participated “because she had variously been threatened, beaten, strangled to unconsciousness or that her family or animals had likewise been threatened”.
Repeated text exchanges about being aroused over sex acts with young girls convinced a judge Laken Rose had an interest in her partner s sexual offending. Laken Maree Rose and former partner Andrew Alan Williams were charged with a raft of offences against children aged three to 14. They are well known in equestrian circles and were arrested in May 2019 after police searched their Cambridge home. On Thursday, 31-year-old Rose was found guilty of 45 charges and not guilty on five in the High Court at Hamilton.
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Laken Maree Rose, 31, pictured during her trial in the High Court at Hamilton last month. Photo / Mike Scott
Laken Maree Rose, 31, pictured during her trial in the High Court at Hamilton last month. Photo / Mike Scott
A 31-year-old Cambridge woman found guilty of 45 charges relating to sexual offending against children gave cohesive but mantra-like evidence, the judge deciding her fate found.
Justice Matthew Muir this morning released his 300-page reserved decision in relation to whether Laken Maree Rose was guilty of any of the 50 charges she denied.
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Laken Maree Rose, 31, during her trial in the High Court at Hamilton last month. Photo / Mike Scott
Laken Maree Rose, 31, during her trial in the High Court at Hamilton last month. Photo / Mike Scott
A High Court judge has found horse trainer Laken Rose guilty on nearly all of the child sex charges she was facing.
On the remaining five charges, Justice Matthew Muir found Rose not guilty.
She was convicted on the 45 charges she was found guilty of and remanded in custody for sentencing on February 26, 2021.