Commentary
Two years ago, a Sydney man achieved a substantial payout as a settlement of a $1 million (US$750,000) malicious prosecution case against New South Wales Police and prosecutors.
The case exposed the disgraceful behaviour of police and the public prosecutor’s office, the DPP, in ignoring clear video evidence revealing the man’s former wife’s rape and assault allegations to be falsehoods, the authorities’ role in allowing her to concoct new allegations, and their lies told in court to try to keep him in prison.
The settlement came at the end of a five-year ordeal for the man—I’ll call him “Peter”—after his former wife, a medical specialist, told police he had raped her a few weeks after the couple had split up in 2015. The marriage fell apart when Peter discovered she was having an affair, but the couple then had a brief reconciliation which culminated in consensual sex on the day in question.
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