Coroner & Legal
Mal Brough and Mr Ashby …
If your readers are wondering about the issues behind the AFP search warrants, served on several of the main players in the Ashbygate Affair, then a link from Margo Kingston’s web page The Tweeted Times to a blog run by Vince O’Grady will reveal what is at stake.
The opening para of the blog provides the context, followed by a detailed charge sheet:
The opening para from Vince O’Grady …
On Tuesday 17 November 2015 we learned that the AFP had executed a search warrant on James Hunter Ashby’s mother’s property.
Having followed and written about this for a long time now, I was gratified that the actual warrant stated alleged offences which I had written about recently. In October 2015 I reviewed the evidence of the Federal Court and wrote an 80-page timeline which concentrated mainly on the interactions between Ashby, Doane, Brough and Lewis. Specifically in relation to the access and taking of confidential diary information. The 80 pages is properly referenced to the actual court documents.
By doing this exercise, I was able to look at a continuous and contiguous narrative which highlighted what actually took place and what may have happened between the parties before the actual events. In other words there must have been other forms of communication between the parties for the actual events to have happened.
What this process also highlighted was that Malcolm Brough and Karen Doane may not have answered their subpoenas correctly, leaving them open to contempt of the Federal Court or at the worse, Perverting the Course of Justice.
Initially I wrote this as a brief to read out in a court of law. It is incomplete, but I believe that if placed before a magistrate, there is enough existing evidence to convict of all the charges outlined.