AUSTRALIA
Brisbane Times
[with audio]
November 4, 2015
Jorge Branco
Journalist
The solicitor representing Brisbane Grammar School has come under fire for questioning a key piece of evidence from a Kevin Lynch sex abuse victim.
A Grammar old boy had told the child abuse royal commission former headmaster Max Howell had walked in on the student naked from the waist down with Lynch in the paedophile’s office.
Walter Sofronoff QC, acting for the school, questioned the victim, known only as BQA, extensively about the incident.
He noted BQA had not previously referred to the incident in correspondence with the school or legal claims dating back at least 15 years and its first mention came in his submission made to the royal commission this week.
Eventually Mr Sofronoff said: “I suggest to you that it didn’t happen”.
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