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Former Noel Ashby colleagues p
FORMER top cop Noel Ashby may face charges that could see him jailed for 15 years after two colleagues turned against him.
A senior Victoria Police officer has made a formal statement implicating the former assistant commissioner in alleged criminal behaviour.
The serving officer recently came forward and agreed to provide the Office of Police Integrity with details of Mr Ashby's alleged offences. And a former senior Victoria Police employee is also likely to give evidence that will allegedly be very damaging to Mr Ashby.
The OPI has prepared briefs of evidence against Mr Ashby over five possible charges.
Those charges are perjury, misconduct in public office, misleading or attempting to mislead the OPI director, breach of an OPI confidentiality notice and breach of OPI confidentiality obligations.
If charged and convicted, Mr Ashby would face a maximum jail term of 15 years for perjury, 10 years for misconduct in public office and one year for each of the other three offences.
The OPI has also finished briefs of evidence against Police Association secretary Paul Mullett and former Victoria Police media director Steve Linnell.
It has handed the briefs, which contain new evidence not aired during last year's OPI hearings, to the Office of Public Prosecutions.
Mr Ashby said last night if he were charged he would vigorously defend himself.
He said that if there was new evidence against him then he had not been made aware of it. "I'm confident I can prove my innocence," he said.
Mr Linnell is facing the same possible charges as Mr Ashby.
The OPI briefs of evidence against Sen-Sgt Mullett relate to possible charges of attempting to pervert the course of justice, perjury, counselling and procuring a breach of the OPI confidentiality obligations and attempting to mislead the OPI director.
If charged and convicted, Sen-Sgt Mullett would face a maximum jail term of 25 years for attempting to pervert the course of justice, 15 years for perjury and one year for each of the other two offences.
Mr Ashby prematurely retired from Victoria Police immediately after last year's appearance before the OPI.
Mr Linnell resigned from Victoria Police in November last year after tapes of secretly recorded conversations between him and Mr Ashby were played at the OPI hearings.
He admitted during the explosive OPI hearings that he revealed the names of suspects in the 2003 murder of gigolo vampire Shane Chartres-Abbott to Mr Ashby.
One of those suspects was serving Victoria Police officer and Police Association delegate Det Sgt Peter Lalor. Another was ex-Victoria Police Det Sgt David "Docket" Waters. Neither of them has been charged over the murder.
Counsel assisting the OPI, Dr Greg Lyon, SC, claimed during last year's OPI hearings that Mr Ashby passed information to Sen-Sgt Mullett that led Sen-Sgt Mullett to the conclusion that Det Sgt Lalor's telephone was being intercepted.
Dr Lyon alleged Sen-Sgt Mullett then asked Police Association president Brian Rix to tip off Det Sgt Lalor.
Mr Ashby, Sen-Sgt Mullett and Insp Rix denied passing on the names of the Chartres-Abbott murder suspects. No criminal charges have been recommended for Insp Rix.
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