Lead Detective Leaks Evidence Of CMC Documents To Witness - WHERE WAS THE MEDIA?

Detective Senior Sergeant Joeseph Zitny prepared a 9 page document, which contained a "summary" of Ms Andrea Bowmans testimony during the CMC inquiry in 2006 and emailed it to her for the preparation of her statement, a court has been told.

Ms Bowman was asked repeatedly about the process she had adopted to prepare her statement, and said that she had used media articles, emails, text messages, notes, etc, but did not recollect the 9 page CMC document.Mr Di Carlo produced and email from Mr Zitny to Ms Bowman dated the 11th of march 2009, to which was attached a 9 page summary of what Ms Bowman had told the court at the CMC hearings in 2006. Ms Bowman said that she could not recall Mr Zitny saying he'd provide a summary from the CMC transcripts for her statement, but agreed it was provided to her.

When asked about the conversation on the 22/04/08 which was recorded, Ms Bowman said that she had no recollection of Mr Sica saying to her, " (i wont give you what you want, why on earth out of all people would i tell you anything?)" but recalled Max had said this before, during the early days. Ms Bowman also had no recollection of Max saying to her, "IF I SAID THAT, (refering to the remorse statement that the media sensationalised) IT WOULD HAVE BEEN FOR ONE THING, AND ONE THING ONLY......." we will fill in the gaps later to avoid leading Ms Bowman as she is currently under cross examination. Or when he said "it appears you are trying to get me" or when Max asked her who the cops would use after her.

Mr Di Carlo asked why she couldn't recall much under cross examination and yet, was able to provide a chronological sequence of events, emails and phone conversations during evidence in chief and Ms Bowman agreed that she would look at her statement.

For five and a half years prior to his arrest on 30/12/08, and uptil today, Mr Sica has been through "trial by media." They were present for every raid, every police interview, every forensic procedure order carried out on Max. They even made headlines about him being booked for driving his brothers unregistered vehicle, despite max being unaware.

Ms Andrea Bowman has alledged that Max had made "partial confessions"' to her. Where is the media I wonder, as the polices' "star" witness is being cross examined, and evidence of official police misconduct is coming out. For the majority of this commital proceedings, the media has stayed away especially during cross examination of witnesses.Let's see if they will be present for another person who claimed to have witnessed Max killing the Singh children on 20/4/03 and later admitted that it was a lie.

The opportunity for the reporters to give Max at least a "fair" trial by media is here, (so if and when Max gets cleared of these or other charges, the public can know the facts) but whether they grasp that, is entirely up to them.Guess in the meantime, we just have to wait and see.........................