Police whistleblower Peter Fox has told an inquiry he lied to fellow officers when he said he forgot to bring statements from sex abuse victims to a meeting.
This comes on day two of the Special Commission of Inquiry into the alleged cover-up of child abuse within the Catholic Church in the Hunter.
Detective Chief Inspector Fox told the hearing today he had deliberately left the statements on his desk.
He has previously testified he had lost trust in some senior police.
Inspector Fox said he went to the December 2010 meeting at Waratah Police station hoping to continue his investigations into child sex abuse by priests.
However he held concerns the meeting would be about something else, and it was at that meeting he was told to cease his investigations and hand over his files.
Inspector Fox told the inquiry yesterday that a fellow officer described some police as a “Catholic mafia” in reference to those, who were allegedly trying to cover up sex crimes by priests in the Maitland-Newcastle diocese.
