Pursuit relied on lying, murdering criminal
ONE of the most expensive police investigations in Victorian history was founded on the word of a discredited killer and notorious liar.
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Ashby phone tap data ‘fed to government’
HOW far did secret pay negotiations picked up by OPI phone intercepts travel?
Holes in Overland’s disclosure defence
THERE are holes in the justification relied on by Chief Commissioner Simon Overland for disclosing secret intelligence about an undercover murder investigation.
Commentators prefer to shoot messenger
THERE is something well rotten in Victoria when examples of top-level wrongdoing by a discredited anti-corruption body are glossed over by elements of the local commentariat.
Chief cop known for his glass jaw
BEFORE joining Victoria Police and becoming Chief Commissioner, Simon Overland was subjected to scathing criticism by a senior judge.
Top cop’s phone tap denial
SIMON Overland reportedly divulged secret intelligence from a phone tap which triggered the collapse of a murder probe.
How Overland dodged a bullet
PHONE taps, enmities and a murder probe put Victoria Police in the spotlight.
Overland’s role in aborted murder probe
SIMON Overland divulged intelligence from a phone tap, unwittingly triggering the collapse of a murder investigation.
Overland’s conduct must be probed
POLICE cannot cherry-pick conversations from telephone taps in highly sensitive covert probes to benefit themselves or to take the sting out of an inconvenient story in the media.
No takers for tainted duplex
POKIES and pub baron Bruce Mathieson was bargain-hunting at yesterday’s auction of a beachfront duplex at the centre of a police probe.
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