The Office of ACT Chief Magistrate and Chief Coroner Lorraine Walker wrote to the author on 27 August 2021 saying ‘Her Honour refuses your request’ for a new coronial inquest into the death of a cyclist near Canberra on the morning of 31 March 2017.
But justice was not served by her refusal, and so Her Honour Refuses Your Request: The Death of a Cyclist and What I Don’t Understand:
- names five Australian Federal Police officers and one NSW Police officer who made statements to the court that were at odds with the facts, as well as two of those officers who then gave testimony in court that misled the coroner at the inquest;
- shows how a Monash University expert witness, with three Monash degrees including a Ph D, presented flawed evidence that also misled the coroner;
- critiques the quality of the work performed by counsel assisting the coroner as he failed to sufficiently test the evidence he presented at the inquest;
- concludes the coroner erred in her findings; and
- questions why new evidence the driver committed an indictable offence was rejected by the Office of ACT Chief Coroner Walker.
In this work the author also raises never-before-published questions about the veracity of some of the evidence presented by the Australian Federal Police at the inquest.
Many people were approached by the author while researching this book. Some agreed to be interviewed, including three of the first to arrive at the scene, a few of the witnesses who drove past the cyclist that morning, the driver who fatally struck the cyclist, the driver’s girlfriend, and a Victoria Police sergeant and media officer. Some were open and honest, some chose to tell half-truths, while others refused to engage. And that is now a matter for them..
Зміст
Preface: Justice was not served
Introduction: The ACT’s odd legal system
Prologue: Who will stand up for justice?
Minimal 1: What really happened
Minimal 2: Craig Slater, senior constable with the NSW Police
Minimal 3: Joel Wiseman, constable with the AFP
Minimal 4: Frans Badenhorst, constable with the AFP
Minimal 5: Gregory Munro, leading senior constable with the AFP
Minimal 6: Adam Potts, senior constable with the AFP
Minimal 7: Phillip Cantwell, leading senior constable with the AFP
Minimal 8: Shegu Bobb, the driver
Minimal 9: Karina O’Grady, a family friend
Minimal 10: Steve O’Hern, the Monash University expert witness
Minimal 11: Jennie Oxley, the other Monash University expert witness
Minimal 12: Margaret Gardner, Monash University vice-chancellor
Minimal 13: Ken Archer, counsel assisting the coroner
Minimal 14: Bernadette Boss, the coroner
Minimal 15: Neil Gaughan, the ACT chief police officer
Minimal 16: Michael Chew, the ACT deputy chief police officer
Minimal 17: Matthew Kamarul, the instructing solicitor
Minimal 18: Lorraine Walker, the ACT chief magistrate and chief coroner
Appendix I: The 30-31 March 2017 timeline
Appendix II: Craig Slater, supporting documentation
Appendix III: Joel Wiseman, supporting documentation
Appendix IV: Frans Badenhorst, supporting documentation
Appendix V: Gregory Munro, supporting documentation
Appendix VI: Adam Potts, supporting documentation
Appendix VII: Phillip Cantwell, supporting documentation
Appendix VIII: Steve O’Hern, supporting documentation
Appendix IX: Jennie Oxley, supporting documentation
Appendix X: Ken Archer, supporting documentation
Appendix XI: Bernadette Boss, supporting documentation
Appendix XII: Neil Gaughan, supporting documentation
Appendix XIII: Matthew Chew, supporting documentation
Appendix XIV: Matthew Kamarul, supporting documentation
Appendix XV: Lorraine Walker, supporting documentation
Про автора
Heath Ryan is a publisher and writer, and holds a BA in Economics and History from the University of Toronto. Born in Canada, Heath lived in Jordan, France and the United Kingdom before moving to Australia and becoming an Australian citizen.In addition to being a father, Heath is also an ultra-endurance cyclist. Riding as ‘The Dark Knight’, he was in twentieth position in the 2017 Indian Pacific Wheel Race from Fremantle to Sydney on the day the race was cancelled when a cyclist was killed near Canberra. Since then, Heath completed three transcontinental races in the 2018 calendar year, achieving for the first time what can be called the triple crown of unsupported ultra-endurance cycling. Heath’s current focus is investigative books dealing with social justice, books that celebrate human achievement, and books, articles and minimals that observe and comment on behaviour and society.
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