AUSTRALIA
Maitland Mercury
By ELLE WATSON May 10, 2013
The NSW Police Force has painted whistleblower Peter Fox as a troublemaker who passed on confidential documents to journalists to undermine the sex abuse investigation he was excluded from in 2010 in the hope he could write a book about it.
Wayne Roser SC, the barrister representing several senior police, told the Commission of Inquiry Inspector Fox asked Newcastle Herald journalist Joanne McCarthy to amend a six-page report on his sexual abuse investigations before he passed it on to his superiors.
“You drafted this report and then you sent it off to your friend Ms McCarthy and asked her to amend it,” Mr Roser put to Inspector Fox who said the “vast majority” of information in the document came from the journalist.
“Ms McCarthy knew a hell of a lot more than what was in my report,” Inspector Fox said.
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