Lake Alice survivor's plea against Dr Leeks fell on deaf ears

The Medical Council of New Zealand is poised to deliver a personal apology to a survivor of the notorious Lake Alice child and adolescent unit whose complaint about the horrors there was ignored. 20 years after he was sent to the institution, where children were tortured with electric shocks and paralysing injections, Steve Watt asked the council to investigate the unit's lead psychiatrist, Dr Selwyn Leeks. But his plea fell on deaf ears, partly due to concerns about harassing Dr Leeks, reporter Jimmy Ellingham has the story.