AUSTRALIA
Sydney Morning Herald
June 27, 2013
Catherine Armitage
Senior Writer
It is a common enough scenario: members of a group talking behind someone’s back about leaving them out of things. But this is not the reality television show Survivor – it is senior members of NSW Police, and the subject is the whistleblower Detective Chief Inspector Peter Fox.
Chief Inspector Fox was so upset about his exclusion from the group that took over investigating allegations of Catholic paedophile priests in the Hunter region that he went on television and wrote an open letter to NSW Premier Barry O’Farrell claiming a cover-up.
The special commission of inquiry’s first term of reference is to look at why Chief Inspector Fox was asked to stop his investigations and if that was appropriate.
The inquiry has been told that in September 2010 the crime manager at Newcastle local area command, Detective Chief Inspector Brad Tayler, and the officer soon to take over from him, Detective Chief Inspector Wayne Humphrey, were told the brief that became known as Strike Force Lantle would be coming to them.
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