By Paul Dale
Paul Dale grew up in Yackandandah desirous to be a cop. He completed his dream and have become a detective who thrived on catching crooks. yet in 2003, issues began to get it wrong. one other detective was once arrested burgling a drug apartment with an informer, Terry Hodson, and in go back for a lighter sentence, Hodson named Dale as an companion. Then Hodson used to be murdered, and Dale used to be arrested as a suspect.There a nightmare that lasted approximately ten years.While the gangland wars raged, Victoria Police pursued Dale, lucrative hitmen and drug lords for statements opposed to him. He spent seven months within the state's so much infamous penitentiary, charged with homicide at the testimony of killer Carl Williams, and was once even accused of setting up the homicide of Carl Williams in prison.In 2013, Dale ultimately got here earlier than a jury on perjury fees and used to be stumbled on now not to blame on all counts. Now, for the 1st time, Paul Dale tells his tale. He poses a question that are meant to problem us all: If Paul Dale did not do it,...
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And if that didn’t help, there was always the sliding scale of horror to give you perspective. If I was feeling crappy about delivering a death message, the bloke on the barstool next to me might have gone to a triple-fatal collision and delivered three death messages to the same family. What you saw might have been bad, but your mates’ stories were a constant reminder that things could always be worse. In the bizarre police universe, we didn’t talk about how we felt about delivering the death message or attending the cot-death baby, but in a way, just saying it meant that nothing really built up inside.
But the story is bigger than just me. The wider political and social implications of what happened to me need to be recognised in order to prevent this happening to someone else – or at least to serve as a warning that it could. In 2007, I was summonsed before the Australian Crime Commission, legally compelled to give up my right to remain silent, and promised indemnity and secrecy to answer all their questions. Before I knew it, transcripts of my ‘secret’ testimony were circulating in prison and I was being contacted by killers who weren’t happy.
Terry, you’re done for. Terry, you’ll probably die in prison. Terry, you’re fucked. You can almost picture Terry, his mind clicking over, whirring with possibilities, the cornered rat coming out fighting. And you can picture his eyes narrowing, brow furrowed mid-deal. ‘It’s Dale,’ he says. ’ But while you can picture him saying it, saving his skin, wheeling and dealing, what you can’t picture is your colleagues leaning forward, eager for another cop’s scalp. Believing him when he says you were in on the deal to rob the drug house.