AUSTRALIA
Newcastle Herald
By IAN KIRKWOOD July 10, 2013
A FORMER police officer has denied he was concerned about collusion between senior church figures as depicted by whistleblowing officer Peter Fox.
Donald Mark Brown, who left the force in 2010, was the officer that Mr Fox had assigned to take a statement from Father Robert Searle over a 1998 outburst by AH, a victim of paedophile priest Jim Fletcher.
Mr Fox had expected Father Searle to make a statement saying that AH had been complaining about paedophile priests. But this detail was absent from the statement Mr Brown obtained from Father Searle.
Mr Brown said Mr Fox had not asked him about the differences after he arrived with the statement.
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