‘Hero’ William Tyrrell cop charged
The former William Tyrrell case head detective credited with leading other cold case murder investigations has been charged with criminal offences.
Former homicide detective Gary Jubelin — who headed the William Tyrrell case and other cold case murder investigations — has been charged with four criminal offences.
Detective Chief Inspector Jubelin, one of NSW’s most prominent homicide detectives who recently stood aside from the William Tyrrell case, has been charged today with four counts of breaching the Surveillance Devices Act.
NSW Police issued a statement saying the charges related to recordings made at Parramatta and at Kendall, the NSW town from which toddler William Tyrrell vanished in 2014.
The charges arise from actions then Detective Inspector Jubelin allegedly committed while investigating a witness in Australia’s most baffling missing child case.
NSW Police said Chief Inspector Jubelin, who recently resigned from a decades-long career in the NSW Police, had been investigated “following a number of complaints”.
The Professional Standards Command commenced an investigation in 2018 overseen by the Law Enforcement Conduct Commission into the conduct of the officer during the course of his operational duties,” a NSW Police statement said today.
“Those inquiries disclosed a number of recordings allegedly made at locations in Parramatta and Kendall in New South Wales.”
Seven News has reported supporters of Mr Jubelin, who has been the public face of other very high profile cold cases, are calling the charges a “witch hunt”.
News.com.au has learned Mr Jubelin’s removal from the Tyrrell case came after alleged disquiet among fellow investigators about the focus on a single “suspect” to the exclusion of others.
Following his removal, the families of missing or murdered relatives whose cases Mr Jubelin investigated came out in his support, saying he was a “hero” to them.
William Tyrrell vanished, aged three, from his foster grandmothers’ home in the NSW Mid North Cost town of Kendall on September 12, 2014.
Despite a massive manhunt, no trace of the missing boy has ever been found; a partially heard inquest into William will continue in August.
Gary Jubelin led the cold case probe into the early 1990s murders of Colleen Walker, 16, Evelyn Greenup, 4, and Clinton Speedy Duroux, 16, from Bowraville’s indigenous community.
He also spearheaded the case of Matthew Leveson, whose remains were found in bushland in the Royal National Park south of Sydney in 2017, ten years after he vanished.