-----Original Message-----
From: Nigel Gray [mailto:[FYI request #12827 email]]
Sent: Monday, 11 May 2020 12:54 PM
To: D Clark (MIN) <[email address]>
Subject: Official Information request - Number of ECT Devices in New
Zealand hospitals or care facilities.
Dear David Clark,
Given that Electroconsulsive Treatment has been
used as a method of torture historically in New Zealand, can you please
inform me of the precise number of these devices in NZ hospitals in present
time?
Given that a senior psychiatrist. Dr Selwyn
Leeks, thoroughly trained and qualified by NZ Govt standards. used one of
these devices to torture the genitalia of young boys, and that use of this
device has also been declared and categorized as a form of torture, on what
evidence (not basis but evidence and testing) is it continued as "therapy"
in New Zealand?
Yours faithfully,
Nigel Gray