Police acted on a tip-off to Crime Stoppers before they charged a former suspect in the William Tyrrell investigation with historical child sex offences he was later cleared of, a court hears.
Detectives who charged a then-suspect in the disappearance of William Tyrrell with historical child sex offences were "just doing their job" and acted on a tip-off to Crime Stoppers, a court has heard.
Mr Spedding is suing the state claiming the charges, which he was ultimately cleared of, were a malicious attempt by police to gain leverage against him in the Tyrrell investigation. Detectives took the matter seriously, he said, and would have been "rightly criticised" for dismissing the claims out of hand.
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