Police officer claims her statements over Silk-Miller murders was falsified, shredded
AN officer at the scene of the Silk-Miller shootings has lashed out at the team probing the police murders, claiming one of her statements was falsified and another was shredded.
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EXCLUSIVE: A police officer at the scene of the Silk-Miller shootings has claimed one of her statements was falsified and another was shredded.
The female officer has lashed out at the team investigating the police murders.
Her Facebook outburst came after the Herald Sun revealed that a key statement from one of her colleagues, Glenn Pullin, was doctored.
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That revelation prompted corruption watchdog IBAC to last month launch a probe into “allegations of serious police misconduct” in the conviction of cop killers Jason Roberts and Bandali Debs.
The woman was one of a group who assisted the dying Sen-Constable Rodney Miller after he and Sgt Gary Silk were shot on August 16, 1998.
In her tirade, she said: “I have not lied, falsified, conspired or any other shit ...
“The so-called firkin (sic) gods of the CI — Homicide Squad — Lorimer are responsible for this no-one else.”
She said on the morning of the shootings she was told not to include all evidence she heard, so she refused to put in a statement. Two years later she was finally asked to submit her first statement, but claimed she was ordered not to include detail from her police “running sheet and day book”.
Then she said she was “dragged into Lorimer and told to put (it) all back”.
“But no, the firkin elite of the elite don’t make it a 2nd statement, it’s an altered 1st statement, with the 4th page acknowledgment & jurat (oath) from the 1st statement perfectly lifted and not re-witnessed and dated,’’ she alleged.
“Then the firkin brain surgeons shred the wrong statement on the hand-up brief …”
The officer is among several being interviewed by the corruption watchdog over the Silk-Miller case.
She and colleagues also fronted IBAC in 2015 after former homicide detective and Police Association boss Ron Iddles said that Mr Pullin “confessed” that a senior investigator directed him to make a second statement.
That probe concluded there was no wrongdoing, after Mr Pullin said his “confession” to Mr Iddles had been a lie.
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But last month the Herald Sun uncovered a ‘’buried’’ original statement by Mr Pullin, given on the morning the two officers were gunned down, which made no reference to there being multiple offenders.
An altered statement made about two years later, doctored to carry the time and date of the original, was presented to court as his only account.
According to that, he said a dying Sen-Constable Miller had said “they were on foot” — critically indicating more than one gunman had been present.
Mr Iddles, who concluded in a 2013 review of Roberts’ conviction that “on the basis of probability” he was not at the murder scene, last month told the Herald Sun he believed several police had been involved in a “conspiracy”.