at the Royal Show, because I’m a life member of the RNA, and I think we put on free drinks at the Police Club which used to be on top of the CIB at North Quay, and I met him there once. Ron Redmond introduced him.’
It was where Breslin claims he also met, for the first time, the popular local television personality and police public relations maestro, Constable Dave Moore. ‘Strangely enough, Terry Lewis introduced me to David Moore at the Queensland Police Club,’ says Breslin. ‘If the Commissioner introduces you to someone socially, you obviously think they must be important. Lewis called Moore over and said, “David, there’s someone I want you to meet.”
‘He [Lewis] promulgated me far above my level. At that stage I didn’t know of his [Moore’s] TV show. It wouldn’t be something I’d have been at home to watch.’
(Breslin would later claim a strong acquaintance with senior police officer and future acting commissioner Ron Redmond. In a statement made to lawyer Chris Nyst years later, Breslin said he had met Redmond and other detectives at the Police Club for drinks and the case of the infamous Whiskey Au Go Go case came up in conversation. Breslin said in his statement: ‘He [Redmond] said a number of things about the case and suggested that [John Andrew] Stuart was right for the Whiskey Au Go Go fire. He said words to the effect that [James] Finch was a mate of Stuart’s and that he was such an animal that they had to get him off the streets, so they “bricked” him. Redmond repeated a couple of times his assertion that he had “bricked” Finch. None of the other officers there seemed particularly surprised.’)
By early 1983, however, Breslin himself had already been the object of an undercover police operation, resulting in a raid on his Alice Street apartment, overlooking the old Botanic Gardens in Brisbane city. There, police found photographs of Constable Dave Moore cavorting with young men and dressed in a South East Queensland Electricity Board workers uniform.
Moore, the public face of the Queensland police, was subsequently questioned by his superiors and the incident was deemed ‘nothing offensive’. He was warned off associating with Breslin.
Breslin claims he was at the end of a police conspiracy. ‘My barrister … Pat Nolan … there was some ridiculous charge that I was remonstrating with people at a swimming pool wearing a Queensland Police uniform …’ says Breslin. ‘One day when I was at Metro Ford, I clearly remember this, I put my Fairlane in for service. I walked back to my unit. By the time I got there it was about an hour, [I] talked to a couple of people on the way, there were about five detectives in there planting stuff. I burst the door open and said, “What the fuck’s going on?” They had all these search warrants.’
Breslin says he was told that Ron Redmond had organised the raid. ‘I’m saying that I certainly didn’t do any of the things that I’m alleged to have done,’ he says. ‘I’m not coming out and telling you that I haven’t walked on both sides of the fence, I certainly don’t get involved in that sort of rubbish.’
Police Club president John Cummins was alerted to the mounting Breslin situation. ‘The next thing I know about him I get a telephone call from a very senior policeman,’ he says. ‘I was told that Breslin was under investigation. I got him out of the club as quickly as I could . . . I told him I didn’t want him there anymore. He got barred.’
A Rendezvous in Montague Road
In early 1983 Geoff Crocker and his wife Julie were running a number of successful escort agencies across the city when the pattern of business suddenly changed – someone was telephoning him and warning him of police raids on his girls. Crocker suspected the calls were coming from Licensing Branch officer ‘Dirty Harry’ Burgess. He also got a feeling he was about to be hit up for protection payments.
He was right.
Burgess phoned
It was where Breslin claims he also met, for the first time, the popular local television personality and police public relations maestro, Constable Dave Moore. ‘Strangely enough, Terry Lewis introduced me to David Moore at the Queensland Police Club,’ says Breslin. ‘If the Commissioner introduces you to someone socially, you obviously think they must be important. Lewis called Moore over and said, “David, there’s someone I want you to meet.”
‘He [Lewis] promulgated me far above my level. At that stage I didn’t know of his [Moore’s] TV show. It wouldn’t be something I’d have been at home to watch.’
(Breslin would later claim a strong acquaintance with senior police officer and future acting commissioner Ron Redmond. In a statement made to lawyer Chris Nyst years later, Breslin said he had met Redmond and other detectives at the Police Club for drinks and the case of the infamous Whiskey Au Go Go case came up in conversation. Breslin said in his statement: ‘He [Redmond] said a number of things about the case and suggested that [John Andrew] Stuart was right for the Whiskey Au Go Go fire. He said words to the effect that [James] Finch was a mate of Stuart’s and that he was such an animal that they had to get him off the streets, so they “bricked” him. Redmond repeated a couple of times his assertion that he had “bricked” Finch. None of the other officers there seemed particularly surprised.’)
By early 1983, however, Breslin himself had already been the object of an undercover police operation, resulting in a raid on his Alice Street apartment, overlooking the old Botanic Gardens in Brisbane city. There, police found photographs of Constable Dave Moore cavorting with young men and dressed in a South East Queensland Electricity Board workers uniform.
Moore, the public face of the Queensland police, was subsequently questioned by his superiors and the incident was deemed ‘nothing offensive’. He was warned off associating with Breslin.
Breslin claims he was at the end of a police conspiracy. ‘My barrister … Pat Nolan … there was some ridiculous charge that I was remonstrating with people at a swimming pool wearing a Queensland Police uniform …’ says Breslin. ‘One day when I was at Metro Ford, I clearly remember this, I put my Fairlane in for service. I walked back to my unit. By the time I got there it was about an hour, [I] talked to a couple of people on the way, there were about five detectives in there planting stuff. I burst the door open and said, “What the fuck’s going on?” They had all these search warrants.’
Breslin says he was told that Ron Redmond had organised the raid. ‘I’m saying that I certainly didn’t do any of the things that I’m alleged to have done,’ he says. ‘I’m not coming out and telling you that I haven’t walked on both sides of the fence, I certainly don’t get involved in that sort of rubbish.’
Police Club president John Cummins was alerted to the mounting Breslin situation. ‘The next thing I know about him I get a telephone call from a very senior policeman,’ he says. ‘I was told that Breslin was under investigation. I got him out of the club as quickly as I could . . . I told him I didn’t want him there anymore. He got barred.’
A Rendezvous in Montague Road
In early 1983 Geoff Crocker and his wife Julie were running a number of successful escort agencies across the city when the pattern of business suddenly changed – someone was telephoning him and warning him of police raids on his girls. Crocker suspected the calls were coming from Licensing Branch officer ‘Dirty Harry’ Burgess. He also got a feeling he was about to be hit up for protection payments.
He was right.
Burgess phoned
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