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Police officer son of former Premier Kristina Keneally guilty of fabricating evidence · The Slippery Slope

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  So look, I wasn't going to talk about this at all.
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  I'd already done an episode about this story, but I didn't
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  want to. I didn't want to talk about it
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  again. I thought it wasn't really
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  wasn't really worthwhile to be honest.
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  However, it's just come back up in the news.
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  Been talking about the former police officer, I think he's
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  still former now, but he's the son of the former senator and
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  actually I'd forgotten she was actually the NSW premier for a
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  little while. Christina Connealy.
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  Anyway, it looks like he was found guilty.
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  I'm just going to play this quick video for you, mainly
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  because I think there's a few lessons.
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  There's a few lessons that can be learnt from this.
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  In 2019, he was a proud police Academy graduate, his beaming
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  mother by his side. But Daniel Connealy is now a
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  disgraced police officer, limping into court to learn his
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  fate, flanked by his father and his lawyer.
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  In 2021, the Newtown police officer was on a night shift
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  when he took a call from Goulburn man Luke Moore.
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  After the 12 minute conversation, Connealy wrote a
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  statement saying Mr. Moore had threatened police.
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  Keneally's statement claimed the caller named a Goulburn
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  detective, saying he was dead. As good as gone and I'm coming
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  for him when he least expects it.
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  Mr. Moore spent three weeks behind bars after being charged
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  with using a carriage service to menace and threaten to kill, but
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  a recording he'd secretly made during the call later proved he
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  had not said the things Keneally had claimed.
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  Police dropped the charges and apologized.
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  Then the Law Enforcement Commission charged Kennealy with
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  fabricating evidence with the intent to mislead a judicial
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  tribunal. Kennealy told the court he'd
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  opened Mr. Moore's website during the call and may have
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  mixed up some of what he'd read on screen with what he'd heard
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  during the hearing. Kennealy gave evidence that he
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  was tired and wasn't really coping with things in his job.
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  He admitted he wasn't 100% confident where he'd gotten some
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  aspects of his statement from, but maintained he didn't
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  purposefully add any material that he knew to be false.
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  But the magistrate found Kennealy had deliberately
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  misled, saying clearly a false statement has been made.
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  An intelligent policeman on a matter of this importance could
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  not make this mistake inadvertently.
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  That statement there from the magistrate Little.
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  A little back end. An intelligent police officer
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  Anyway. Kicker, kicker.
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  His lawyer says Connealy will appeal Mr. Connealy anyway.
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  He's gonna appeal. Whatever.
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  Look, I just thought, you know, couple of things we can learn
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  from here. If police are gonna call you up
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  and start talking over the phone and questioning you about
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  things, make sure you're recording it, please.
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  And anyone else noticed that he was flanked by his father and
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  his lawyer mother not to be seen.
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  That's some that's some bad PR there.
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  So you know, we have some bad form from NSW Police and an ex
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  politician who's probably thinking she'd like to get back
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  in the game, but his son is making things a little hard for
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  her anyway. I just thought I'd put this up
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  there. It's not much of A story really.
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  I mean the clown. I I don't understand what he was
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  thinking. Poor little.
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  Poor little baby thought, Well, his excuses.
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  I was a bit tired. I was a bit tired.
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  What could I When I got confused?
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  I was just tired and confused. What can I do?
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  Oh, anyway, not much of A story. Like I said, but it's good to
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  see justice going both ways. OK.
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  Anyway, just thought I'd put that out there.
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  Remember any interaction that you have.
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  You really do need to back yourself up and record things
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  when it's happening. Thanks for listening to the
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  slippery slope. They