greg smith, mike gallecher and mr. babb missives

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by ray jackson

time to catch up with some important issues on matters dealing with the tj hickey case, the kings cross shooting of the kids in the car, the death of roberto laudisio curti and finally the secret workings of the nsw dpp.

the third attachment is a letter of reply from the nsw attorney-general, greg smith, explaining the possible ways forward that we could consider dealing with the re-opening of the tj hickey original corrupt police investigation and the very stunted coronial inquest.

none of the information given to gail hickey is new nor helpful in any way at all. the family and isja will, of course, consider the options raised and others that were not identified. the major stumbling block i see initially is to convince legal aid to provide funding to a legal team of gail's choice.

originally, legal aid had no problems to fund the carr government-initiated legal team but they will now baulk at funding a team that will most certainly be more proactive in ascertaining the real facts of that tragic event than those picked by the powers that be originally.

we, the family and isja, are still fighting for justice in the death of tj.

the second letter is from geoff provost, parliamentary secretary to police minister, mike gallecher, who politely informs us that the minister cannot make a public statement on the torture and death of young roberto laudisio curti as the case is still being considered by the office of the dpp as to whether the 5 police officers involved in the criminal acts leading to the death of roberto could or should be charged. it is with no great surprise that both the family and isja firmly argue that the 5 officers must be legally charged and they must face a court of law as do other citizens of this country.

to do otherwise will be an immoral decision and allow police to continue to kill with impunity and immunity. police, and other custodial officers, must be held accountable for their thuggish and brutal behaviours.

the second matter raised in this letter relates to the shooting of the 6 youth in the stolen car at kings cross. both the police minister and his secretary appear to share confusion on this event.

they are of the opinion that the investigations into the actions of the kings cross by other police is yet to be finalised. this is not the case.

the results of the secret investigations were sent to the office of the dpp with unknown recommendations for a decision to be made by the dpp as to whether or not the reckless and life-endangering actions by the arresting police are worthy of them having to face criminal charges. unlike the roberto case, the dpp found that there was no worthwhile considerations for charges to be laid against the offending police.

the firing of the police glocks into the car, wounding the driver twice and the front passenger once was stated by the police media to be a life-saving reaction to the unidentified woman who, allegedly, was being dragged some metres under the stolen car!

this does not appear, however, to reflect clearly the veracity of the actual events.

yes, there was a woman on the bonnet of the car but that fact did not deter the police firing their glocks into the car in a most haphazard manner. that unidentified woman was taken to hospital but released after observation. whilst many photos were taken by the public showing the physical bashing of the driver and his front seat passenger, despite their wounds, none have been shown or come to public attention of the mystery woman under the car who apparently required no medical treatment or hospitalisation of any lacerations or wounds.

this statement by police, without any public scrutiny, leaves one with the clear possibility that this was added to assist in the police case of showing why they, the kings cross police, acted as they did.

why should police investigation reports into other police actions not be made public? the police want our trust, then that trust must be earned by police being both professional, honest and trustworthy. without the full public knowledge of those reports i do not see that the public perception will change. we asked for the nsw attorney-general to make the police investigation public but the a-g has failed to respond.

the first letter is from mr. babb, sc who informs us that it is really not in the public interest for his office to show why he and his compatriots make the decisions that they do. and to somehow reinforce that arrogance he further informs us that under the dpp act, he can not tell us as the act states that he does not need to tell us. he then, with much cynicism, refers us back to the police who made the problem in the first place.

as i have put before, why should all 6 families whose sons were involved in that event not have the right to be given a copy of both the police investigation report as well as the dpp's reasonings of why the police should not be charged? if any family wished to consider civil charges against the offending police, then surely they are more than entitled to have all the required paperwork before them.

the a-g ignored our request to have the dpp table those documents also.

what chance for justice? according to these three missives and their scribes, none!!!!

our forum to launch the national day of action on the death of john pat 30 years ago on 28 september, 1983 will be held at the settlement, 17 edward street darlington on saturday 27 july, 2013 beginning at 3.30pm.

confirmed speakers are dr. gerry georgatas, human rights and dic advocate, ms. debbie kilroy,qld. sisters inside ceo, barbara greenup-davis, a spokeswoman from the bowraville 3 families and colleen fuller who is struggling against nsw dept. of community services for her grandson to be returned to the family.

we are still waiting for the other 2 speakers to confirm their attendance.