AUSTRALIA
ABC News
By Dan Cox
The NSW policeman who blew the whistle on an alleged cover-up of child sexual abuse within the Hunter Valley’s Catholic Church says Newcastle’s chief police officer was keen to see him fired.
Detective Chief Inspector Peter Fox is back in the witness box for the second day of a special commission of inquiry’s public hearings in Newcastle.
The inquiry is looking at how complaints about deceased former priests Denis McAlinden and Jim Fletcher in the Maitland-Newcastle diocese were investigated.
Detective Chief Inspector Fox told the hearing, the former Newcastle superintendent Max Mitchell told him to hand over the files on the church and stop investigating the allegations, stop communicating with journalist Joanne McCarthy and stop speaking with witnesses.
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