In the early 1990s, then Detective Sergeant Gavin Ryan was investigating “Mr Cruel”, a paedophile who abducted and raped three girls in a series of home invasions. Two judges contacted him with information
A royal commission is investigating at least a dozen legal figures who worked as police informers or could have passed confidential information to Victoria Police, including a report two judges might have crossed a line in a bid to catch notorious paedophile “Mr Cruel”.
Royal commission investigators have also been examining police interactions with other professionals with access to confidential information, potentially including parliamentarians, journalists, priests and medical specialists. Victoria Police has refused to grant the royal commission unrestricted access to these “reconstructed human source files”, redacting the names and other identifying details of the operatives and holding the materials in a secure viewing room inside police headquarters.
They are referred to as the “IBAC 12” – named after the anti-corruption agency who conducted the first independent investigation into Victoria Police’s relationship with Ms Gobbo and its wider human source management operations.
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