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POLICE union boss Gary Wilkinson has been charged with contempt after labelling Queensland's Deputy Coroner's findings into a death in custody a "witch-hunt".
Deputy Coroner Christine Clements handed down her report into the death of Palm Island man Mulrunji Doomadgee on September 27, finding police officer Sen-Sgt Chris Hurley was responsible for his fatal injuries.
At a press conference, Mr Wilkinson launched a scathing attack on the findings.
He also claimed the inquest pandered to Palm Island's residents and ignored "mountains of evidence" and that Sen-Sgt Hurle... Read more
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Brisbane Times - Brisbane,Quee 20 June 2009
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Australia: Policeman sentenced
HE WAS a friend and colleague - a fellow police officer, with whom Greg Brown was prone to have a beer.
And after an inquiry by the Police Integrity Commission into alleged criminality, he is free. Brown, by contrast, is looking at jail for lying to protect him.
Gregory John Brown, a senior constable from Fairfield Police Station, was sentenced to eight months and two days protective custody yesterday for lying to the commission about plans to buy a brothel, covering up for a colleague who was later found to have done nothing wrong.
He was denied an adjournment by Chief Magistrate Graeme Henson, but immediately lodged an appeal and was granted bail unopposed. He will re-appear on August 3.
After making bail, Brown refused to say whether there was an unspoken code among police - one where an officer might lie for another.
In sentencing Brown, Chief Magistrate Henson drew on the sentencing of the disgraced former judge Marcus Einfield. "As has often been said," he read from Justice Bruce James's judgment, "each of the offences of perjury and perverting the course of justice strike at the heart of the administration of justice."
Being a police officer did not change this, he said. The supposed nobility of the act - of covering for a mate - made no difference.
On December 4, 2007, Brown lied five times at an Integrity Commission investigation into whether Constable Rick Perchtold was involved in criminal activity or serious police misconduct. He had been under oath.
Constable Perchtold was a friend - a "professional and social acquaintance", as Chief Magistrate Henson put it - who worked with Brown at Fairfield Police Station.
Brown had introduced Constable Perchtold to the brothel owner Sam Lapa at the Marconi Club. He spoke to Constable Perchtold about the latter's plans to buy a brothel.
But when questioned under oath he failed to mention any of this. It was not until the commission heard recordings of conversations he had with Constable Perchtold that Brown conceded it was not an exhaust business his friend was trying to buy.
The brothel turned out to be a legal business operation.
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