The story of Peter Halloran disturbed me. I’m pleased to read that he’s now been released. From The Age:
Senior Victorian police officer Peter Halloran was last night cleared by the Sierra Leone Court of Appeal of sexually assaulting a teenage girl while working as a war crimes investigator for the United Nations.
Superintendent Halloran was facing 18 months in jail after he was controversially convicted in February.
The two-one decision in his favour by the three-judge appeal court came after months of delay. The appeal decision was repeatedly adjourned after one of the judges refused to attend court because he was on holiday.
Halloran was working in Sierra Leone for the United Nations. He was charged after a colleague made accusations against him. The girl he supposedly abused gave evidence in his favor, but somehow he was convicted.
He has spent several months in a fetid cell, with little publicity in this country, especially compared with Schapelle Corby in Indonesia.
Not only is Peter out of SL but he is home with his family – slipped in under the media radar.
Peter’s daughters and my nieces are good mates. I will be keeping my eye on the newspapers and State parliament for developments ….!!!???