Death on the Derwent: Sue Neill-Fraser's story by Robin Bowles

Author:Robin Bowles [Bowles, Robin]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: TRU000000, SOC004000, TRU006000
Publisher: Scribe Publications
Published: 2019-02-19T00:00:00+00:00

From April 2016, Barbara had some help from a kind, community-spirited solicitor called Jeff Thompson. He met Barbara at a function for lawyers; they got chatting, and he said he had a bit of spare time as he was completing his Master of Laws at University of Tasmania (UTAS). He’d owned a house in Hobart since 2010, but left it to sail around South-East Asia, and then from Rhode Island to Hobart from 2012 to 2014. An adventurous spirit with a very mild-mannered exterior: Jeff is someone my husband would call a ‘bleeding heart’. (My husband says that about me, too!) Jeff was not interested in a posh job in a fancy legal practice — and just as well, because as a non-Establishment graduate, he probably wouldn’t have got one. He put some pressure on the Justice Department after first being knocked back, but then got a job with the Department of Justice (DoJ) because he’d bought a house and settled his family in Hobart (showing evidence of becoming almost a Tasmanian). As well as that, he was more highly qualified, academically, than many of the staff at the DoJ. Jeff’s job was duty solicitor for the DoJ and part-time legal advisor at the Tenants’ Union, until, on 16 August 2017, he suddenly faced criminal charges of perverting the course of justice. Jeff was suspended. No idea why he was charged. No indictment was issued for months. He was terminated from his job some time later. Why? What had he done? Read on …

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