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Halloran free to leave Sierra Leone
2005
Overview
KERRY O'BRIEN: Senior Australian police officer Peter Halloran is preparing to return home to Australia after a court of appeal in Sierra Leone yesterday quashed his conviction for indecent assault of a schoolgirl. The former head of the Victorian homicide squad, who was commander of the United Nations-backed War Crimes Investigation Unit in the war-torn African nation, has always proclaimed his innocence after allegations were made by a fellow Australian police officer. Now Halloran plans to pursue those in Australia who he claims smeared his name, including the officer who first raised the allegations. Mick [MICK O'DONNELL] reports. MICK O'DONNELL: The case against Halloran was initiated by a fellow war crimes investigator - former Tasmanian detective Mandy Cordwell. She and Halloran had shared this house in the hills above the city. There, Halloran had hired 13-year-old Kadie Kabia as a nanny for a girlfriend's son. MICK O'DONNELL: The board of inquiry questions why, if Mandy Cordwell was so concerned about seeing the young girl go into Halloran's room: \"She takes no actions to safeguard the welfare of the child. \" And it says Cordwell tried: \"To put ideas in the girl's head about serious sexual assault.\" During the court case against Halloran, the young girl recanted the claims against him. She said Mandy Cordwell and a Sierra Leone police woman had offered her inducements to accuse Halloran.
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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