I asked Andrew (Mallard) when everything turned for him. He replied that it was when he was in Graylands Hospital in a
straitjacket. He had been injected and he caught a glimpse of himself in the mirror with saliva dribbling down his
chin and thought, “I’m going to die in here.” That was when it all changed for him. The Attorney General should
bear this in mind when he is arranging compensation. I had dinner last night with one of Perth’s leading personal
injury lawyers, who practises in both the Court of Appeal and the High Court. He assured me that because of the
way the writ is pleaded, Andrew is entitled to a civil jury, which could strike the damages in this case. I will be
very interested to see, after the trial with a civil jury, whether the average person in Perth agrees with me that
Andrew Mallard is entitled to $10 million for the destruction of his life, and that Lance is entitled to compensation for what the police have done to him and his family. They tore up his backyard, searched for DNA
and went to the media saying that Lance was the murderer. They then went quietly to his parents in November
2008 to say, “We’ve looked into this further and we’re satisfied as to his alibis. We think he’s a bit weird and his
behaviour is unusual, but we’re satisfied that he’s not the murderer.”
What has happened? We have a corrupt police officer running his own agenda, convicting people in the media
and destroying families, and because of his success in doing this, he is promoted! They sacked Paul Ferguson.
Does the member for Murray-Wellington know Detective Sergeant Paul Ferguson? He is a fine police officer. I
know him, his family and all his history. He is a fine police officer, but he was sacked from the case because he
was not advancing the case quickly enough. They wanted a quick result, and this Caporn chappie had got a quick
result in the Mallard case, so they sooled him onto this case to sink Lance. They could not convict him in court,
so they convicted him in the media. I do not know any more about the facts behind Mrs Rayney’s death than
anyone else in this house. I am not any better informed, but I do know that what the police did was damnable. It
was the same form again. They did what they did to Lance and Mallard. They announced that Mr Rayney was
the prime and only suspect.