He said one of the reasons was because Police Commissioner Karl O'Callaghan had, in a radio interview earlier in the day, described Mr Rayney as a "person of interest",
when his status was actually "an arrested suspect".
"In my view that was a breach of the Criminal Investigation Act (CIA). That was not Mr Rayney's legal status, and to protect any evidence we obtained it needed to be rectified publicly because that's how the commissioner's statement was made, publicly," he said.
"My belief was Mr Rayney at some stage, would use any breach of the CIA to have any evidence we'd obtained, ruled inadmissible."
Inspector Lee also said he thought it was important to "correct the record and ensure the public were not misled about his status".
"It is essential to tell the truth to the public to preserve police credibility and keep public confidence in the investigation," he said in his written statement.
He said by the time of the media conference he
was "firmly of the belief that all other significant persons of interest [in the case] besides Mr Rayney ... had been eliminated from the inquiry".
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-04-...oyd-rayney-as-suspect-starts-evidence/8417974
So what was the issue, really?That he was named a poi or suspect? Or that he was named as the
only suspect? I never followed the Rayney case