A courtroom has dismissed the case introduced in opposition to a Victoria Police detective charged with sharing {a photograph} and details about former AFL coach Dani Laidley after the Justice of the Peace discovered the officer has no case to reply.
Justice of the Peace Samantha Poulter on Tuesday dismissed the costs in opposition to Detective Main Senior Constable Murray Gentner, discovering the prosecution failed to determine that the officer had an obligation to not disclose the details about Ms Laidley.
“On this present case, I’m not glad {that a} responsibility to not disclose info has been established,” Ms Poulter discovered within the Melbourne Justice of the Peace’s Court docket on Tuesday.
“I’m glad … the disclosure didn’t impede crime prevention, detection, pursuit of offenders or the like. On that foundation, I discover that the prosecution has not established a authorized responsibility existed to not disclose the knowledge in these circumstances.”
Detective Main Senior Constable Gentner was certainly one of three officers charged after images of Ms Laidley taken after her arrest for stalking in Could 2020 entered the general public area.
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One photograph confirmed Ms Laidley in a wig and make-up being interviewed by two officers. The opposite photograph was a mugshot.
Detective Main Senior Constable Gentner, 43, had pleaded not responsible to misconduct in public workplace, accessing a police database with out affordable excuse and 4 prices of revealing police info with out affordable excuse.
He advised investigators he shared the mugshot with different officers in a social WhatsApp group, however didn’t take or leak the unique photograph and as a substitute discovered it on-line. He stated he shared a screenshot of the mugshot to alert his pals that the picture had gone viral.