Prosecutor inept on Henderson: inquiry

A FORMER detective with the NT sex crimes unit told an inquiry a prosecutor did not pursue "all avenues" of the alleged crimes of a carer at Retta Dixon Home.

The University of Canberra Chancellor says he wasn't told of child abuse at the Retta Dixon Home.

AN inept prosecutor was the only reason an alleged pedophile was not convicted in a 1976 trial for sexually abusing Aboriginal children in his care, a royal commission has heard.

FORMER Detective Sergeant Roger Newman was head of the Northern Territory sex crimes unit in 1998 when he began investigating Donald Henderson, who had been a carer at the Retta Dixon Home in Darwin for mixed race Aboriginal children taken from their parents and made wards of the state.