AUSTRALIA
ABC News
By Dan Cox
A detective involved in the arrest of a paedophile priest has told an inquiry into child sexual abuse he has no evidence of collusion within the Catholic Church in the New South Wales Hunter Valley.
The inquiry is examining whether senior church officials helped or hindered a police investigation into Maitland-Newcastle priests James Fletcher and Denis McAlinden.
Former policeman Donald Brown has given evidence at the public hearings and was involved in Fletcher’s arrest.
Police whistleblower Peter Fox was his supervisor in May 2003, when the pair interviewed and charged Fletcher over child sexual abuse.
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