AUSTRALIA
ABC News
By Danny Tran
A former Victorian police officer who was drummed out of the force for trying to bring a notorious paedophile priest to justice is living a meagre existence and struggling to make ends meet, supporters calling for him to be compensated say.
Denis Ryan, 86, lives in a rented flat in Mildura and, despite clocking up about 20 years of service with Victoria Police, is not on a police pension.
“You certainly can’t live lavishly or anything like that,” he said.
To the fury of his friends in the north-west Victorian town, he gets by on an aged pension instead.
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