It has been revealed Tasmania Police secretly bugged a meeting room at Hobart's Risdon Prison while attempting to make a case against the former lawyer of convicted murderer Susan Neill-Fraser — and left the devices recording for two months.
Tasmania Police secretly recorded private and legally privileged conversations between lawyers and clients at Risdon Prison for months while trying to make a case against convicted murderer Susan Neill-Fraser's lawyer, it has been revealed.Police alleged he planned to influence a witness to make a false identification and applied to bug their conversation in Risdon Prison
It meant the secretly recorded evidence of Mr Thompson's meeting with potential key Neill-Fraser witness Stephen Gleeson could not be admitted in court.In 2017, Mr Thompson was working on Susan Neill-Fraser's court appeal, which ultimately failed. Justice Brett found the warrant should have been far narrower to only allow the recording of the meeting between Mr Thompson and Mr Gleeson, and the privacy issues meant the evidence could not be used.
Justice Brett found that prison officers had control over when Mr Gleeson was available for a meeting, and police would have had enough notice to get into the room and make sure it only recorded this one conversation.
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