AUSTRALIA
The Australian
DAN BOX THE AUSTRALIAN SEPTEMBER 24, 2013
A NSW detective who claimed on television that he was ordered to stand down from a police inquiry into Catholic Church child abuse was under internal investigation for alleged disciplinary offences before the broadcast, an inquiry has heard.
Confidential documents tendered to the NSW Special Commission of Inquiry reveal Detective Chief Inspector Peter Fox also had previously refused to provide “explosive” information about the church to other police officers.
In his closing submission to the commission yesterday, the barrister representing NSW Police, Wayne Roser SC, accused Mr Fox of using an interview in November last year with ABC1’s Lateline to deliberately undermine the police.
Mr Fox was never part of the police strike force formed to investigate the alleged cover-up of abuse committed by priests, Mr Roser said, “and it follows that there was no way he could ever be removed”.
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