Top cop ‘revealed evidence was planted’ in Jensen case
HIGH-ranking members within Victoria Police made reports to an anti-corruption body about the shooting of career criminal Graeme Jensen which remain unresolved to this day.
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HIGH-ranking members within Victoria Police made reports to an anti-corruption body about the shooting of career criminal Graeme Jensen which remain unresolved to this day.
The Herald Sun understands several decorated officers informed investigators at the former Office of Police Integrity about possible corruption, but it was not followed up.
It is understood one of the reports involved an officer stating he had witnessed homicide squad detective John Hill loading glass fragments into the gun police alleged Jensen had pointed at them, prompting them to shoot back in self defence.
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Jensen’s fingerprints were not on the gun, nor were glass fragments when first inspected, police documents state.
A second examination detected glass fragments, which suggested the gun had been inside Jensen’s car when bullets shattered the windscreen.
Detective Hill committed suicide after he was charged over his alleged involvement in tampering with evidence.
The Herald Sun on Tuesday revealed details about an affidavit sworn by former detective William Nash about the Jensen case.
It revealed claims the gun police alleged was found in Jensen’s car had been lost.
Mr Nash, who was among a team which investigated eight officers charged over Jensen’s 1988 fatal shooting — including now Assistant Commissioner Robert Hill — says in his affidavit that a former detective had alleged the gun which police claimed Jensen had been wielding, was planted on him.
A statement Nash made was forwarded to the Victorian Ombudsman. It alleged:
A STASH of guns obtained from interstate were used by the Armed Robbery Squad to plant on suspects.
THESE guns were kept at an inner-suburban police station before being transferred to the Armed Robbery Squad offices.
SOME of them were later disposed of in the Werribee River.
AFTER Jensen was fatally shot, an officer telephoned the Armed Robbery Squad office and requested that a working firearm be brought to the crime scene in Narre Warren.
Victoria Police would not respond to specific questions sent to it. “Allegations previously raised have all been investigated,” a spokesman said.
“There is nothing to warrant a reopening of the investigation.”
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