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The Canberra Times - Canberra,
13 June 2008
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Detective wanted to see fellow
A suspended Victorian detective wanted anti-corruption investigators to ''f---ing die'' and he did not mind if they were bugging the conversation, an inquiry heard yesterday.
Sergeant Denis Linehan was caught on tape saying, ''I hope they f---ing die, the c----'' in February, shortly after a series of raids to gather evidence against his friend, and fellow criminal suspect, Sergeant Tony Juric.
The secretly recorded conversation between Sergeant Linehan and Detective Senior Sergeant Mark Chrystie was played in a dramatic final day of evidence at the Office of Police Integrity hearing into allegations that serving officers have undermined a murder investigation.
In the conversation, Sergeant Linehan described the ethical standards department as ''filth'' and was even more colourful about Office of Police Integrity investigators.
''I hope they're f---ing listening too [and] every last one of the c---s dies,'' he said. Sergeant Linehan was suspended on full pay on Wednesday over an unrelated criminal matter being investigated by the ethical standards department.
The tape was not put to Sergeant Linehan during his evidence, which took up half the three-day hearing, but was played to Senior Sergeant Chrystie . He explained it as his former colleague venting anger.
''I have got no problem with the OPI or ESD,'' Senior Sergeant Chrystie said. ''I have been involved in charging a policeman. I think that was Denis just venting his anger.''
Overseer of the inquiry, former Federal Court judge Murray Wilcox, QC, said the tape was one example of a wider dislike of anti-corruption investigators within the police force. ''It's a culture that seems to run through many of these conversations,'' Mr Wilcox said.
He asked Senior Sergeant Chrystie why he did not bring his friend and subordinate officer into line, reminding him that there were allegations of serious crimes afoot.
Mr Wilcox also asked whether Senior Sergeant Chrystie felt he could ignore the well-known confidentiality clauses attached to Office of Police Integrity subpoenas, given that he had discussed subpoenas with a number of people.
''How can people have any confidence in the integrity of the police force when a senior sergeant like yourself shows such disdain for the legislation of this state?,'' he asked
The hearing was told former detective Paul Dale was a person of interest in relation to the murders of informant Terrence Hodson and his wife, Christine, in 2004.
Another policeman, whose name was suppressed described Mr Dale as more of a mentor than a friend.
''I feel a degree of loyalty to Paul: to my knowledge he had done nothing wrong,'' he said.
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