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Message: [QUOTE="Kaz, post: 2407890, member: 1843"] You do know, they were cleared. IMO: It was a witch hunt. ONE of the most senior police officers involved in the investigation of the Bulldogs gang rape allegations in Coffs Harbour has publicly supported the footballers and said: "There was no woman raped." Detective Senior Sergeant Gary McEvoy - who was the investigative manager of Strike Force McGuigon, which found there was insufficient evidence to charge any footballers - said yesterday it was obvious within the first 48 hours of the allegations emerging in February 2004 that no one would be charged. McEvoy left the NSW police force in February after suffering stress related to his work involved in the Bulldogs inquiry. "I would go so far as to say that on Sunday the 22nd of February 2004 there was no woman raped in the pool area of the Pacific Bay Resort," McEvoy said in an interview with 2SM Talkin Sport host Graeme Hughes, brother of sacked Bulldogs football manager Gary Hughes, to be aired today. "That statement there, what I have given you now, is the complete opposite to what my boss, my commander, was telling the media. Everyone is entitled to their opinion but that is mine." McEvoy told the Herald yesterday that detectives believed it would be difficult to charge anybody after taking statements and interviewing more than a dozen people in the first crucial days. "The evidence just wasn't there, it didn't support the rape allegations and as investigators we had very serious concerns; yet despite that, the aggressive police strategy continued week after week," he said. "There were warning bells that we would look silly. Everyone in the investigation saw the signs but the people above us were not listening - or if they were, they were ignoring them." His view is at odds with that of chief investigator, Detective Chief Inspector Jason Breton, who took over the case from McEvoy when returning from leave [URL]http://www.bigfooty.com/forum/archive/index.php/t-239942.html[/URL] [/QUOTE]

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