Howard Broad has responded to the request by Rochelle Crewe to investigate the evidence surrounding the murder of her parents 40 years ago, by having the Deputy Police Commissioner, Rob Pope review the files.
This sop can only be seen as yet another attempt by those in the Police force to protect their own.
There are many true, honest and law abiding Police Officers but I would suggest there was, and still is a ‘dark culture' within the force that needs to be shaken out.
Howard Broad's response amounts to a monstrous conflict of interest and could be likened to a criminal setting their own sentence.
The skeptics within our society know already what the outcome will be.
The judicial travesty that allowed Arthur Allan Thomas to be found guilty of those murders twice is an indication that the manipulation and planting of incriminating evidence by the police leading the case, was so creative that it was made believable to the jurors on two separate occasions.
Mr Thomas's eventual pardon, incriminating comments made by Royal Commission of Enquiry directed at the investigating police, and the then Solicitor General, Paul Neazor's refusal to lay charges against the two leading police investigators is just one of many shameful incidences that has wracked the police force, over time.
The old adage ‘it is not what you know but who you know' is as true today as it ever was. How does the public maintain confidence in the law?
For those who had any doubts at all about Thomas's guilt read ‘The Inside Story' by Ian Wishart.
Maureen J Anderson, Pyes Pa.