http://www.watoday.com.au/wa-news/y...ing-confronts-wa-top-cop-20161125-gsxz09.html
ormer Claremont Mayor, Peter Weygers, who was once named as "a person of interest" by police for the unsolved Claremont serial killings told Police Commissioner Karl O'Callaghan he had "ruined his life" during a bizarre run-in last week.
According to The Post Newspaper, Mr O'Callaghan and a photographer pulled up in a car outside a house Mr Weygers owned and was visiting briefly, sparking the former child psychologist to "tremble with fear".
"My first thought last Thursday was that the Commissioner himself had come to arrest me on camera," the 72-year-old told The Post.
"Either he was coming to apologise for the police leading people to believe I was the Claremont serial killer, or he was going to arrest me for it."
Mr Weygers said he had had post-traumatic stress since Mr O'Callaghan said publicly in 2004 that new evidence identified him as a person of interest in the unsolved 1990s disappearances of Sarah Spiers, Ciara Glennon and Jane Rimmer.
At the time, his Embleton house, the same house Mr O'Callaghan was at on Thursday, was sprayed with luminal, a poisonous chemical that glows in the dark if it reacts with blood, and another home he owned was searched in the full glare of media cameras.
The former Mayor has not been publicly cleared of any involvement in the Claremont serial killings, but The Post reported DNA samples of the offender recovered from the body of one of the victims did not match his, or any other known suspect.
Unbeknownst to Mr Weygers, Mr O'Callaghan had arrived at his house by coincidence, after a photographer for The West Australian arranged to meet him on the street to take a photo for a front-page story about children living in dysfunctional families.
The West Australian front cover page photograph police commissioner Karl O'Callaghan was taking when he unintentionally visited Mr Weygers house.
The group moved across the road from Mr Weyger's house for better lighting, with a police officer asking him if he would like to be introduced to the Commissioner.
"I couldn't miss the opportunity I walked over and called the commissioner Dirty Harry," he told The Post - referring to a movie about a corrupt police officer.
"I said you have labelled me a murderer and terrified my wife and her child and totally destroyed my life."
He told The Post the Commissioner recalled the incident but said it was the major crime squad that was responsible for the investigation.
He declined to comment to Mr Weyger's account of their meeting.
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