A 70-year-old pharmacist jailed this week for his role in supplying gangs with pseudoephedrine still insists he is innocent.
Speaking exclusively to the Weekend Herald, Samuel Ross Pulman said he believed he was part of an undercover operation, helping the police to catch P manufacturers by selling the restricted medicine.
The grandfather of six also maintains he made no money from the sales. "I've never taken a cent. I'm not prepared to give in. I want to remain tall, to tell the truth."
But Pulman's explanation was rejected by Justice Edwin Wylie, who said in July that the veteran Rotarian and youth centre owner did not strike him as an honest witness.
Yesterday, in the High Court at Auckland, Justice Wylie sentenced Pulman to five years and eight months in jail.
So here's our question; if Samuel Ross Pulman is indeed innocent of supplying pseudoephedrene to P cooks, why did he plead guilty? That doesn't seem to be the action of an "innocent" man.
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My question - where did the hundred k go that he was reportedly paid for those pills? He stated that he never took a cent, and always put the money in a cash box, or a safe with the rest of the banking. That is a lot of money to hide. Someone has it...or has spent it.
He's clearly trying to get 'soft-time' in a more benign area of teh corrections facilities by putting himself in an 'at risk' position . .
Isn't it a pity that one never, ever, gets all the details in these cases, but must rely on biased information?
FFS, they're called 'standover tactics', threaten an elderly man to get what you want. Even here in Whanganui the quacks opened an alternative clinic which operated after hours using locums and rostered GPs and employed security to deal with the standover tactic of the local scum.
As to the loot, whores and horses.
btw Lee C, unless the man enjoys the company of the kiddy fidlers and bent coppers Ohura will be no picnic.
@ Anon - they don't go to Ohura any more. Te Moenga unit at Wanganui Prison is where it's at, and in contrast to other parts of the facility, the inmates are of a much lighter hue. I believe that Messrs Schollum and Shipton spent time in TM at Her Majesty's pleasure.
Hey He new exactly what he was doin. i was one of the persons involved in this, i was one he sold too. There was never ever stand over Tactics, he just got greedy for money.He didnt have too open at 6 am. And True where did the 90k dissapear too.He new exactly what he was doing. Although i dont think he should of got longer than every one else. Maybe if he pleaded guilty in the beginning and not play the courts for a fool, he may have got a shorter sentence.
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