Wednesday 10 September 2008

'You know too much' - TV psychic threatened

Sensing Murder psychic Sue Nicholson has revealed she has received threats because of her work on the crime-solving series.



The Wellington psychic told Sunday News she has been warned to ride out silent because of what she knows.


"The only problem I have had since doing Sensing Murder is a telephone call at 1am from a male who talked about unitary of the cases," Sue said.


"He aforesaid he watched me on the programme and to 'keep my mouth close, as you know overly much'."


But the psychic isn't afraid and won't allow threats keep her from appearing on the top-rating TV2 show.


"I don't let people like that fright me, as I will still transport on with the cases even though some cases are with gangs and drug rings," she said.


"I know I am existence looked after, otherwise 'Spirit' (a occult being she says helps her in her crime-solving) would not let me do the work.


Sue finds working on Sensing Murder emotionally onerous but the death of 12-year-old schoolgirl Agnes Ali'iva'a had a particularly austere effect on her.


She over up in hospital for a week, spookily woe a like ailment to that which killed Agnes.


"After filming that episode I ended up very queasy in infirmary with water supply on my lungs," she said.


"I went over to the other side and she (Agnes) was there. I had taken on what she had passed over with, as she had drowned in a ditch.


"The hospital could non understand that in such a short space of time I had become so ill."


Sue said she couldn't explicate her condition to doctors, as she had signed a confidentiality agreement with Sensing Murder.


Agnes drowned in a ditch in the Auckland suburbia of Mount Roskill in 1992. Police initially thought her death was an accident and it was three days before her body was identified.


It wasn't until four years afterward her death that a second coroner's inquest ruled Agnes died under leery circumstances. Her case inactive remains unsolved.


Sue admits operative on violent cases can be perturbing for the psychics and it's hard to walk away from them when she goes home to her family.


"Every case I work on upsets me and some are worsened then others. When I go into a case, I go and apply it all, 100 percent," she said.


"When I amount back place, I have to work it through in my own intellect and I just want to be left lonely. I get my possess peace with the person I am working with.


"I never talk about the case and my syndicate and friends understand that.


"I sign a confidentiality contract that I am non permitted to speak around it to anyone until the case has been viewed on TV."


* A new instalment of Sensing Murder screens on TV2 on Tuesday, 8.30pm.








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