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The NSW Police Deputy Commissioner denied a travel request from sex crimes detectives to obtain a formal statement from Christian Porter’s accuser in Adelaide.
NSW Deputy Police chief denied investigators request to travel to interview Christian Porter s accuser in SA
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AprApril 2021 at 7:45pm
NSW Police Deputy Commissioner David Hudson declined to approve the trip during the March 2020 COVID restrictions.
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NSW detectives investigating the historical rape allegation against former attorney-general Christian Porter were denied permission to travel to South Australia to interview the complainant by the state s police Deputy Commissioner David Hudson.
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The NSW Deputy Police chief denied the investigators request to travel to interview Christian Porter s accuser in SA
The application for travel was denied over insufficient detail to justify why the trip could not be deferred during COVID-19 restrictions
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.