AUSTRALIA
Maitland Mercury
By ELLE WATSON July 10, 2013
A former police officer has denied he ever had concerns about a church cover-up despite contrary evidence by whistleblower Peter Fox.
Donald Brown’s only involvement with the investigation into paedophile priest James Fletcher was taking a statement from Nelson Bay priest Robert Searle in 2003 over a confrontation with one of Fletcher’s victims five years earlier.
Detective Chief Inspector Peter Fox said Father Searle told him that the man was drunk and yelling about “filthy things” priests do to children outside the presbytery.
But the statement taken by Mr Brown, who left the NSW Police Force in 2010, had no mention of filthy things.
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