Superintendent Bruce Grassick has sued 2GB for defamation, accusing presenter Ray Hadley of “malicious bias”.
In the monologues Ray Hadley is being sued over, he suggested that four police officers from the Bathurst area had been charged with misconduct and later acquitted, resulting in one 30-year veteran quitting the police and another seeking psychiatric care.
On May 8, Hadley said the officers had been put through “hell” and were subjected to “a campaign of terror by police prosecutors against their own men and women”.“How do you elevate a bloke who’s the architect of the charges against these poor people to being a superintendent in Tamworth?” Hadley said. “God help Tamworth.”“No wonder you’re struggling to get coppers on the street if you treat people with long service like offal, and that’s what you’ve done with these coppers,” he said.
It is argued Grassick’s reputation was “catastrophically and irreparably injured” by publication of the claims to tens of thousands of people, including on social media. He was also required to answer to his superiors regarding the “false and defamatory allegations”, the document says.
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