AUSTRALIA
Daily Liberal
AN INQUIRY into the handling by police of certain child sexual abuse in the Catholic Diocese of Maitland-Newcastle has heard that former policeman and Dubbo MP Troy Grant rejects having used the phrase “Catholic mafia”.
A national newspaper yesterday reported that Detective Chief Inspector Peter Fox had told the inquiry that the MP used the phrase when referring to police interfering in his own investigation of a paedophile priest.
But counsel assisting the inquiry, Julia Lonergan SC, is also reported to have told of a sworn statement in which the MP denied he used the phrase or that police had hindered or obstructed his investigation.
Mr Grant is scheduled to appear before the special commission this morning.
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