"Police Accused of 'Get Pell' Focus." Serious Questions Raised About Police Investigation, Accusers, Near End of Last Week of Cardinal Pell Hearing

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The defense lawyer “said in court on Wednesday that Operation Tethering investigating Cardinal Pell started as an operation looking for a crime when no crimes had been reported.”

“Detective Superintendent Paul Sheridan said it was an ‘intel probe’ to see whether there were unreported serious crimes. ‘I guess you could term it the way you did, but I wouldn’t term it that way,’” he told the defense lawyer in court.

It came out at the hearing too that the police investigated Cardinal Pell for a year when no complaints had been made at all, and that some were made only after a year.

 

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It wouldn’t surprise me if they were on a “Get Pell” kick.

Police tend to get tunnel vision about people they think have committed some criminal act, and focus on trying to get evidence on them. This has caused real perpetrators to get away with crimes in a number of older cases where DNA eventually proved that the target of the police investigation had not committed the crime.