A false lead. A senior detective. And a timeline of coincidences too sharp to ignore. Ron Iddles didn’t just recycle a dead tip — he knew it was false when he revived it. Twenty years earlier police had already dismissed it. So why push it again? What was he protecting.
“That is just by way of introducing Alfie Gay and putting him in context. He was a major respected, armed robber, safecracker, and all-around sophisticated crook” (Rule)
Why did veteran homicide detective Ron Iddles publicly revive a long-dismissed lead in the Karmein Chan case — right as the Royal Commission into Police Informants handed down its final report in July 2020? This investigation uncovers a web of coincidences that raises serious questions.
I saw a man standing there looking like he was possibly wearing overalls and then what looked like a spray jacket on the top. He had his back turned to me with his gun raised up in the air.
A former colleague of mine contacted me recently with a story that sparked my attention. I haven't done a deep dive as yet, will do later. In the 1990s he was working undercover in the drug squad and was privy to the everyday goings on and illicit exchange of speed, heroin, cocaine and pseudo base chemicals.(whileUwereSleepingx, Reddit)