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Sydney Morning Herald - Sydney
18 August 2006
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Man charged in corrupted murde
THE execution murder of a Sydney drug dealer in the grounds of the Rozelle Psychiatric Hospital might have been solved three years ago had investigators not been given a false lead by a corrupt police officer.
The shooting murder of Andrew John Heavens, during a meeting with two men at Lilyfield, became the focus 18 months ago of an investigation by the Police Integrity Commission into corruption at Burwood Police.
Commission hearings were told the now self-confessed corrupt former detective, Chris Laycock, confessed with indemnity to having been paid $10,000 by a man suspected of having murdered Mr Heavens.
The body of the 31-year-old Leichhardt builder was found on May 2, 2003. He had been shot three times.
The commission heard that another drug dealer who knew him had been feeling the heat from homicide investigators, and that the bribe was to get police off the drug dealer's back by providing investigators with a false lead to another suspect.
Mr Laycock has confessed at commission hearings to corrupt acts including enlisting criminals to pose as police to shake down alleged criminals for bribes, or to pose as police during faked raids on suspected pedophiles. He has not been charged in relation to the murder of Mr Heavens.
But in Parramatta Local Court yesterday, a NSW prisoner, Ryan Barry Burnes, 26, of Nowra, who was not named during the hearings as the person who paid Laycock the alleged bribe, was charged with Mr Heavens's murder. Burnes is serving time for a breach of parole for an unrelated offence. He entered no plea and was led away.
A representative for the Director of Public Prosecutions, Andrew Macdonald, requested a long adjournment to allow police time to provide the defence with transcripts from listening devices.
Burnes, who was represented by Legal Aid, will appear in Central Local Court on November 21.
The head of Strike Force Cascades said late yesterday police were seeking a second man over the killing and believed there were other people who had information or evidence.
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