AUSTRALIA
The Australian
A DETECTIVE at the centre of a state government inquiry into child abuse within the Catholic church “has ridden to glory on a saddle of lies”, according to one of his colleagues.
The NSW Special Commission of Inquiry, which resumed this morning, was set up after Detective Chief Inspector Peter Fox publicly claimed he was “ordered to stand down” from the investigation of a pedophile priest, Denis McAlinden.
The officer in charge of that investigation, Jeff Little, told the hearing that many of Detective Fox’s claims, including that the police Strike Force was “set up to fail” were untrue.
“I was absolutely mortified by those comments,” Detective Sergeant Little said.
”The mere fact that he’s ridden to glory on a saddle of lies at this point is a concern for me.”
Detective Little, whose investigation into the alleged cover-up of McAlinden’s crimes by senior clergy ultimately ran to almost 3000 pages of evidence, said other of Detective Fox’s claims were misleading.
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