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being undercover police”. In fact, there had been an undercover police officer who had
worked at Roddan’s stables at an early stage of the first investigation.
ROBERT GARDNER
Gwilliam gave evidence that Mr Robert Gardner, a significant witness against Roddan, said
that he was reluctant to provide information because “he had heard again of Lindsay
Roddan and his police friends”. Gardner was interviewed by the AFP on 29 January 1996.
This interview records that he was concerned about “who [he] should’ve been speaking to”.
This was because “Lindsay had already told [him] before that he knows everything that
happens in … the hierarchy, the police know about it because Lindsay gets the information
first and boy it travelled pretty quick”. Gardner claimed that he (Gardner) had not been
approached by the police in the inquiry “[b]ecause Lindsay … had assistance through
whatever. He said everything – yeah, so they’re not going to touch you – they’re not going
to come near you because that was being arranged through whoever he was dealing
through in the police force at the time and so he used to get the information first. And
bloody hell he used to. No question on that at all”.
Gardner told the interviewing officers that, in relation to any “friends” in the police, Roddan
said that “whatever information that was about him or anything else, that he got the
information first … [s]o it’d come directly to him first before it went through any part of the
system”. He never mentioned any names, but “whether he just mentioned it in passing,
that he had a guy that used to feed some information back from the Midland Bailiff’s Office
section or the Midland section … I don’t know, really”.
CLAYTON GWILLIAM AND ROBIN THOY
Gwilliam’s evidence was that, on one occasion, Noye “made comment that Roddan had told
him that some … the figure I think was $25,000 had been paid by Roddan to senior police
to have the diamonds returned, or words to that effect”. After having been asked by Thoy
what he intended to do about it Noye said it was “just Roddan’s normal bullshit … and that
he wasn’t going to take it any further”.
Thoy claimed that he had a meeting with Noye in Thoy’s office at City CIB. Gwilliam was
present, and it took place sometime in 1992. He can recall that Noye told him that Roddan
asserted he had paid $25,000 to have diamonds returned to him. Noye said he had not
reported this, stating to Thoy, “[y]ou know what a liar Roddan is”. Noye did not mention to
whom Roddan was alleging that he paid money, but Thoy assumed it was to police.
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