AUSTRALIA
Newcastle Herald
By IAN KIRKWOOD July 3, 2013
WEDNESDAY’S Special Commission of Inquiry hearing closed with a detailed examination of whistleblowing policeman Peter Fox’s record of a 2002 meeting with then Maitland-Newcastle diocese Bishop Michael Malone.
Counsel for Mr Malone, Simon Harben SC, repeatedly took Detective Chief Inspector Fox to evidence he had given in other parts of the inquiry that appeared to give conflicting accounts of when Mr Fox had drawn up his record of their meeting.
In private sittings of the commission in March and again in the opening days of the inquiry, Mr Fox said an account of their conversation – expressed in ‘‘I said, he said’’ form – was written a month or so after the event.
But earlier this week Mr Fox gave evidence that he had written it ‘‘a day or so’’ after the meeting, which took place on June 20, 2002.
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