AUSTRALIA
The Star
By JASON GORDON May 6, 2013
DETECTIVE Chief Inspector Peter Fox described a meeting at which an investigation into child paedophilia was taken off him as ‘‘sinister’’.
Mr Fox again spent the morning giving evidence to the Special Commission of Inquiry into alleged cover-ups of child sex abuse within the Newcastle area, detailing a December 2010 meeting where he was told to cease his eight-year investigations.
Mr Fox told the inquiry that he was instructed by Superintendent Max Mitchell to cease contact with all witnesses and alleged victims, as well as Newcastle Herald journalist Joanne McCarthy.
‘‘I said, ‘these people have been through hell, they have trusted me and I promised them I would see this through,’’ he said.
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