AUSTRALIA
Sky News
A police whistleblower who alleges a “Catholic mafia” including police covered up child sexual abuse by priests in the NSW Hunter Valley has made explosive claims that his office was ransacked while he was away on leave.
Detective Chief Inspector Peter Fox told a government-ordered inquiry that in September 2010, on the day he started a month’s leave, he was asked to handle a ministerial complaint regarding concerns about a “church conspiracy”.
When he returned from leave he was told by a now-retired public servant that his superior, Superintendent Charles Haggett, and Detective Chief Inspector Wayne Humphrey, had got the keys to his office and searched it “from top to bottom, looking in every filing cabinet”.
“You are kidding,” an astonished Insp Fox told the public servant.
“Please don’t tell them I told you,” she said. “But whatever it was they were looking for, they didn’t find it.”
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