AUSTRALIA
Maitland Mercury

By ELLE WATSON May 17, 2013

A QC who independently reviewed Strike Force Lantle said the brief produced by investigators is as good as he has ever seen.

Ian Lloyd QC, this morning told the Commission of Inquiry it took him more than three days to read the 3000 page brief that contained dozens of witness statements supporting claims of sexual abuse concealment by members of the Maitland-Newcastle Catholic diocese.

“In all my years of prosecuting crimes, and we’re approaching 37 years now, the report is as good as I’ve ever seen,” Mr Lloyd said.

He said one of the investigators leading the strike force, Detective Sergeant Jeff Little, appeared to have carried out a complex investigation over 16 months.