AUSTRALIA
Perth Now
BY PAUL MAGUIRE AAP MAY 17, 2013
THE senior policeman who told NSW detective Peter Fox to hand over all his documents relating to allegations of child sexual abuse by Catholic priests says the request was “cordial”.
Assistant police commissioner Max Mitchell was the acting Hunter region commander in 2010 when he told Detective Chief Inspector Fox that allegations in his documents would be investigated by a new police strike force based in Newcastle.
Mr Mitchell told a special NSW government commission of inquiry on Friday that his meeting with Det Insp Fox on December 2 that year was “very cordial”, with “no heated exchanges or annoyance and no outbursts by anyone”.
Mr Mitchell said that when Det Insp Fox arrived at the meeting and said he had mistakenly left the documents on his desk in the Port Stephens police station he simply asked him again to give them to officers involved in the new strike force.
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