CCC prosecution of David McKenzie thrown out of court

Administrative incompetence. Could Silverstone organise a root in a brothel?

After almost three years of preparation, the Corruption and Crime Commission incompetents have had their prosecution of David McKenzie, thrown out of court. McKenzie was charged for allegedly giving false evidence at the Smiths Beach public hearing.

There seems no limit to the stress these sadists will put ordinary people under because of their incompetence. If Brigadier Mike Children Overboard Silverstone and Major General Roberts-Smith down at Dad's Army decide to appeal the decision, a result of their own incompetence, it will mean ten of thousand of dollars of extra legal and court costs to David McKenzie and his family and to the us taxpayers who already fork out $170 000 for Silverstone's farcical performance and are charge $30 million a year to fund the CCC.

This malicious prosecution of David McKenzie for giving "false" evidence, proceeded some two years after that evidence was given in the public hearings, and after the failure of the substantive cases of corruption and misconduct against Mike Allen, Paul Frewer and Wally Cox.

The charges were laid after every major allegation ('finding' in the CCC view!) in the CCC's Smiths Beach Report had been discredited.

The CCC's House of Cards cases collapsed when their investigation practices and sham reports were exposed. It was shown by Malcolm McCusker QC that the CCC ignored evidence they were aware of and did not disclose, because it contradicted their case. Petrice Judge the independent investigator for the Public Sector Management Commission revealed that exculpatory evidence was concealed and left out of the Frewer report.

Excluding exculpatory evidence corrupts justice in the Desert Rat's simple view.

Again this latest bungle reflects dismally on hapless Executive Director Mike Children Overboard Silverstone who has overseen more dodgy investigations, more stuffed up investigations and more clumsy prosecutions than is believable.

Who would now believe his account of the conversation with Commander Banks in the Children Overboard Scandal?

Silverstone's strategy over the last year seems to have been to pursue prosecutions that will improve his and the CCC dismal win-loss record. He is now becoming a national laughing stock.

The pitiful prosecution of a piano tuner has plumbed new depths in useless and pointless prosecutions. More on that in a later post.