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Melbourne Herald Sun - Austral
26 February 2008
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We bashed suspect, ex cops tel
THREE former detectives have admitted in court to bashing a suspect in custody.
The trio are also expected to plead guilty to lying to the director of the Office of Police Integrity about the assault.
Sen-Det Mark Harrison Butterfield, 38, Sen-Det Robert Lachlan Dabb, 35, and
Det Sgt Matthew Adrian Franc, 37, once members of the disbanded armed offenders squad, admitted in the Melbourne Magistrates' Court yesterday to assaulting an armed robbery suspect on May 10, 2006, at St Kilda Rd police headquarters.
The bashing was allegedly caught on tape and showed two detectives from the controversial squad slapping, punching and kicking a suspect, known as "A100", in an interview room during questioning. The video has not been released.
The men faced a combined total of 23 charges relating to the bashing, but cut a deal with the Office of Public Prosecutions to reduce the number of charges.
The charge of unlawful assault carries a maximum penalty of three months in jail.
Former squad head Det Insp Bernard Rankin was initially accused of counselling and procuring the bashing but had since been exonerated, and all charges against him were withdrawn.
Prosecutor Michael Tinney told the court the men admitted they misled OPI director George Brouwer at a series of public and private hearings into the bashing, where they denied knowledge of or involvement in the assault.
In July 2006, the OPI raided the armed offenders squad's offices on St Kilda Rd, seizing papers and electronic documents as part of a probe into its methods and culture.
The squad was later scrapped, outraging its members, who wrote a poem that summed up their anger.
It read, in part: "When banks get robbed and policemen are shot, the hierarchy cries 'Who have we got? Who can clean up this great mess . . . let's call on the men from the AOS."
The disgraced ex-detectives are expected to formally plead guilty to the deception charges at a further plea hearing on Friday before magistrate Peter Lauritsen.
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