AUSTRALIA
Newcastle Herald
By MICHELLE HARRIS Sept. 23, 2013
UPDATED
Detective Chief Inspector Peter Fox was never ordered by senior police not to investigate clergy abuse – only to stay out of those matters Strike Force Lantle was investigating, the Special Commission of Inquiry has been told.
Barrister for the Commissioner of Police, Wayne Roser SC, told the inquiry on Monday afternoon that Mr Fox was not made a strike force member but remained “at liberty” to investigate other allegations relating to other victims.
But instead he had leaked information that could adversely effect the strike force’s work on paedophile priest Denis McAlinden and chose to advocate to “anyone who would listen to him” that Lantle was a “sham set up to fail”.
Mr Roser told the inquiry that NSW Police had “total commitment” to investigate child sexual abuse allegations.
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