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Paul Savage says he wasn’t told some of his often-heated conversations with former homicide detective Gary Jubelin were being recorded. Picture: Peter Lorimer/AAP
Paul Savage, 75, who was not able for reasons of ill health to testify in person, said Mr Jubelin had spoken to him many times over the course of the investigation, and claimed that the detective had once threatened to “bring me in, arrest me.”
The court has previously heard a tape of the relevant conversation, which does not capture such a threat.
“He told me how he knew I’d done it and all the rest of the rubbish and he wound up saying ‘I’ll back tomorrow to take you in’, to arrest me,” Mr Savage said.
“He said ‘I will be out tomorrow to pick you up or take you in’. He’d been telling me how I had something to do with it … those were his words.
“He was telling me he was going to arrest me.”
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Barrister for Mr Jubelin, Margaret Cunneen SC, suggested to Mr Savage: “You always knew that he was one of the more senior officers involved in the disappearance of little William … You knew it was his job to investigate, that his job was to try to find out what happened to William Tyrrell.”
“Yes,” Mr Savage replied.
“Sometimes he was very hard on you in his conversations, would that be fair?”
“He liked to be the boss, yeah,” Mr Savage replied.
“Other times he was a bit more friendly?”
“Very rarely.”
“You were cranky with him sometimes?”
‘You knew there was a record somehow’
“If you get spoken to the way he spoke to me, you’d be cranky, too,” Mr Savage replied.
Ms Cunneen suggested to Mr Savage: “Because you knew that he was a senior detective, whenever you spoke to him, you knew there was a record of what was said going on somehow?”
“No, I did not,” Mr Savage said. “I knew it in the interrogation room as I call it. But when he was on his phone, I never expected it.”