AUSTRALIA
Brisbane Times
November 4, 2015
Jorge Branco
A victim of a paedophile at Brisbane Grammar School has accused the serving chairman of the school’s Board of Trustees of repeatedly lying to a royal commission.
He told child sex abuse royal commission hearings in Brisbane of a “culture of covering up anything” that would tarnish the school’s reputation when he was abused in the early ’80s.
The man, known only as BQA, said he and his mother had met with chairman Howard Stack twice roughly a year before fellow victim Nigel Parodi shot three police officers in Chermside.
In the second of those meetings, about the late ’90s, he said Mr Stack was not helpful at all and kept stating his job was to protect the “fabric of the school and the boys who were attending now”.
The witness also accused the police at the time of failing to investigate the “cover-up” of Lynch’s crimes after he committed suicide in 1997, saying “no perp, no case”.
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