The Snitch: How police uncovered Brett Finch’s underage sex fantasy

Police weren’t looking for ex NRL star Brett Finch when they were investigating a child sex fantasy ring. This is how they caught him.

EX-NRL star Brett Finch was a needle-in-the-haystack find for cops investigating a child abuse fantasy ring that was operating on a gay sex chat line.

Court documents revealed police weren’t actively targeting the one-time State of Origin hero, but happened upon his phone number and details when they were sifting through a “copious” amount of call records from the chat platform known as “FastMeet”.

Police became aware of what was going on with the chat line when Victorian cops arrested child sex offender Robert Bray.

Bray volunteered that he had been working as a line operator for the chat line, meaning that he was hearing what people were talking about on the calls.

Investigators then put the hard word on the operators of FastMeet who handed over call logs and audio files.

Former footy star Brett Finch after leaving court this week. Picture: NewsWire / Monique Harmer

This included “copious amounts of telephone calls” that involved Australian-based users of the hotline, court documents said.

Police then painstakingly analysed all of the calls that were made between November and December 2020 and discovered they included graphic descriptions of sex with under-aged boys.

It was during this process that they discovered Finch, who described himself as “Brad, 35 masculine build, married”, court documents said. Finch used his own phone to call the hotline seven times from November 6, 2020, and described sickening sex fantasies with minors ranging in age from 12- to 14-years-old, court documents said.

Outside the Downing Centre Local Court this week, Finch’s lawyer Paul McGirr said there were “mental health issues at play” that contributed to Finch’s offending.

During his arrest, Finch told police he had never engaged in sexual activity with children and that his offending occurred when he was on drugs.

Mr McGirr told the court that Finch would plead guilty to one count of using a carriage service to make available child abuse material. The police prosecutor told Ms Horan the other six other charges would be dropped.

MAJOR BLOW TO RYMER RUMOURS

It seems there is more evidence to support the case that ex-Rebels bikie Chris Rymer’s “equipment” still works.

A quick refresher for the uninitiated: Rymer was shot in the groin region while sitting in a taxi at Riverstone in March 2021.

Every story written about him in the aftermath has featured the grimace-inducing detail that Rymer’s penis had been damaged in the shooting.

Bikie Chris Rymer (left) has proved that the rumours aren’t true.

We were told several weeks ago this was not true and it appears there is now more evidence to support the case.

That being that Rymer is having another baby.

We’re told it’s a boy and he will join Rymer’s existing brood of three girls.

Rymer is recovering after being shot (for a second time) outside his Western Sydney home last month.

MORE PAIN FOR JENNINGS

The debt hole is getting bigger for former NRL flyer Michael Jennings.

Jennings’s ex-wife Kirra Wilden successfully sued him for $500,000 after a judge in the civil proceedings found he had raped her several times during their brief marriage.

Last week Judge David Wilson SC ordered Jennings to pay Ms Wilden another $10,583.

The amount was to cover her legal costs after Jennings lost an application to vary a freezing order on his assets to fund his appeal against Judge Wilson’s decision in the Sydney District Civil Court.

Judge Wilson rejected the application and told the court he believed Jennings was shifting his assets to avoid paying Ms Wilden.

On Friday, Judge Wilson told the court: “The application was refused principally on the basis that I did not accept that the defendant did not have access to monies which had been paid to Ms Harris.”

In court, Jennings warned through his lawyers that the decision could force him into bankruptcy.

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