AUSTRALIA
Newcastle Herald

By JASON GORDON May 9, 2013

DETECTIVE Chief Inspector Peter Fox came under fire this morning for a message he sent via Twitter late yesterday concerning information which had been suppressed by the Special Commission of Inquiry.

Wayne Roser SC, representing several senior police at the inquiry, said the tweet was ‘‘not only inappropriate, it was against the ruling of this commission’’.

The commission heard certain information before it closed yesterday, but Commissioner Margaret Cunneen ruled that the information be suppressed and withheld from any form of broadcast or publication until it could be further explored later today.

Mr Roser suggested that Mr Fox’s tweet was ‘‘another example of you not accepting authority and doing your own thing’’.