AUSTRALIA
Newcastle Herald
By JASON GORDON May 7, 2013
CONVINCED that moves to stop his investigation into the cover-up of paedophile Catholic priests were ‘‘sinister’’, Detective Chief Inspector Peter Fox lied to colleagues, breached police protocols and grew convinced that his work was being sabotaged.
‘‘The pricks can shove it,’’ he wrote in a personal diary only hours after he had been told by a superior to cease his investigations.
Mr Fox spent his second day before the Special Commission of Inquiry in Newcastle yesterday, admitting that he breached police protocols and directions, and describing a strikeforce set up to investigate Catholic Church cover-ups as ‘‘a sham’’.
Under heavy questioning from Counsel Assisting, Julia Lonergan SC, Mr Fox admitted that he lied to police colleagues about the whereabouts of victim statements that he was asked to bring to a meeting in December 2010.
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