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The most senior police officer behind the arrest of Latrell Mitchell and Jack Wighton has admitted giving false evidence and lying under oath while testifying against the NRL stars. During an explosive cross-examination, Sergeant David Power apologised to Wighton and admitted core allegations he made about why he kicked him out of a Canberra nightclub weren’t accurate.
False evidence admission aired in Jack Wighton and Latrell Mitchell court case. It prompted Wighton’s lawyer to accuse police of trying to “frame” his client, declaring the case was an “old-school stitch-up”. Power earlier alleged he saw Wighton with clenched fists, anger in his face and holding a man by the shirt before he removed him from Fiction nightclub. But Wighton’s lawyer Steve Boland pieced together a timeline of events via CCTV footage that led the officer to admit none of it happened.
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