Secretive Silverstone peeps over the parapet

Rare public comment from Silverstone on Andrew Mallard case inquiry reveals CCC's apprehension.

The Desert Rat was surprised to find a public comment from Mr Invisible Mike 'Children Overboard' Silverstone, albeit from the safety of a letter to the obscure Western Suburbs Weekly (3/2/2009) probably written with the help of his brigade of propaganda and public relations militia.

This valorous outburst from the timorous mouse was the first since the defamatory press release (subsequently amended without any apology) that he handed out when he jumped in front of the TV cameras, to announce the 'findings' of the Smiths Beach Inquiry many long years ago. After this disaster and humiliation, he has had no public profile and has hardly been sighted.

Silverstone's recent tentative effort was a response to a letter by civil liberties campaigner Brian Tennant asking why no criminal prosecutions had been made in the $8 million inquiry into the wrongful conviction of Andrew Mallard, by Judge John Dunford QC. The inquiry was commissioned by the Corruption and Crime Commission presumably because the job was too difficult for the Dad's Army duds.

Silverstone's defence in the letter, is that John Dunford did not recommend criminal charges, but that did not stop Mike Silverstone and the CCC from proceeding with criminal charges against Brian Burke, Julian Grill and Norm Marlborough even though the Director of Public Prosecutions recommended against charges. Judge Dunford QC didn't say criminal charges should not be laid against police.

The real reason the Desert Rat suspects, is, that if charges were laid against the police officers and the prosecutor involved, then the CCC investigators and Silverstone himself would be placed right in the firing line, because the CCC has been guilty of the same lack of honesty and impartiality in its Smiths Beach investigation.

The Desert Rat is currently researching the striking similarities between the police investigation into the Mallard and his wrongful conviction, and the CCC's officers in the Smiths Beach investigation.

Mike 'Children Overboard' Silverstone and his inept outfit have every reason to fear the police officers being charged and successfully prosecuted, because they would soon find themselves in the same perilous situation.