AUSTRALIA
The Australian
APRIL 28, 2015
Dan Box
Crime Reporter
Sydney
A former Knox Grammar teacher suspected of being the “balaclava man” who sexually assaulted a young boy at the exclusive Sydney school says he did not want to give evidence to a royal commission because he is a “private man”.
Christopher Fotis was arrested in Queensland earlier this month after failing to appear at a previous hearing of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse.
Mr Fotis, a former resident master at the northern Sydney boarding school, told the commission he did not receive a summons to give evidence at the hearing in February and did not follow it at the time.
“I did what I was legally entitled to do. I was a free man under no legal obligation and I based my movements upon that,” he said.
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