New Zealand for his brother’s wedding and had been working in Canada in a high-powered environmental consulting job at Jacques Whitford Group, one of Canada’s leading engineering companies with worldwide offices, where he had held management roles in corporate development and in environmental engineering from 1990-2000.

Elder had not been a chief executive before. He was trained as a civil engineer and gained a first class honours degree from Canterbury University, later a doctorate from Oxford University and also a Rhodes Scholarship.WARNING: Contains graphic content

First thing the sexual assault complainant did — a mistake — was shower.

To remove the vomit in which she’d been lying face down, the dried ejaculate in her hair, the trace stench of intimate violation upon her body.

As, indeed, some of us who’ve been in the courtroom this past week feel a similar urge to bathe immediately upon departing the premises.

Wash off the ugliness.

Because the assaults continue.

Not rapes and forcible fellatio, which the woman claims occurred in the early morning hours of Jan. 17, 2015. But the assaults on her character, on her recital of disputed facts, on the statements given to investigators, on comments made to a nurse, on medical records, on texts sent to a cop colleague and to friends, on testimony elicited