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The NSW Police deputy commissioner rejected a request by sex crime detectives to travel to South Australia to interview the woman who levelled historical rape allegations against Christian Porter, documents show.
The then attorney-general last month launched defamation action against the ABC for publishing what he says are false accusations he was the subject of rape allegations stemming back to 1988. Mr Porter strenuously denies the allegations.
The SA-based woman at the centre of the allegations took her own life in June.
The complainant originally reported the matter to SA Police in November 2019 and the allegations were passed on to NSW Police s sex crimes squad.
EXCLUSIVE NSW police top brass blocked a request by sex crimes detectives to travel to Adelaide to interview the woman who alleged she was raped by former Attorney-General Christian Porter during the COVID-19 border closures. The new revelations are contained in a 69-page dossier of documents produced after a demand from NSW Parliament that also reveal for the first time that police emailed the woman for a welfare check and about making a statement following multiple delays - just two days before she died by suicide. Mr Porter rejects the 1988 rape allegation as completely false and has commenced defamation action against the ABC over the original report of the matter.
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The woman who made a historical rape allegation against cabinet minister Christian Porter asked for a Skype interview with police months before she took her own life.
In answers provided to NSW Parliament, it has been revealed the woman approached the NSW Police Force on 1 April 2020 and asked if she could provide a formal statement through Skype.
Police then spoke with the woman, who was living in Adelaide, by teleconference.
Police were unable to travel to South Australia due to COVID-19 restrictions at the time.
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“Options were presented to the victim in relation to obtaining her statement,” a police statement to NSW Parliament reads.