AUSTRALIA
Maitland Mercury
By ELLE WATSON May 9, 2013
Peter Fox passed on confidential information to Newcastle Herald journalist Joanne McCarthy in an attempt to undermine a sex abuse investigation after he was dumped from it in 2010, according to a legal representative for the NSW Police Force.
Wayne Roser SC cross-examined Detective Chief Inspector Fox this morning as he took to the witness box for a fourth day at the Commission of Inquiry into a child sex abuse cover up by the Maitland-Newcastle Catholic Diocese.
Mr Roser claimed Inspector Fox had been warned by a Lake Macquarie Crime Manager about his interference with a second investigation – Strike Force Georgiana.
It was alleged Inspector Fox tipped off Joanne McCarthy to a priest that was being investigated by the Strike Force.
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