AUSTRALIA
ABC News
[with audio and video]
By Dan Cox and staff
The New South Wales policeman who blew the whistle on an alleged cover-up of child sexual abuse in the Hunter Valley says senior police searched his office for sensitive files while he was on leave.
The inquiry is looking at how complaints about deceased former priests Denis McAlinden and Jim Fletcher in the Maitland-Newcastle diocese were investigated.
It was sparked by the allegations of whistleblower Detective Chief Inspector Peter Fox, who is giving evidence today.
Peter Fox has told the inquiry two senior police officers turned his office upside down while he was on leave for a month.
He said the sensitive files they were after were in a secure safe, but after that he started to distrust senior police.
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