No probe of Old police
NZPA Brisbane The Queensland Police Minister (Mr Russ Hinze) said yesterday that there would be no state inquiry into suspicions that the Queensland police could have been corrupted by the Clark heroin gang. The Melbourne Coroner (Mr Kevin Mason), investigating the death of the New Zealand-born drug couriers, Douglas and Isabel Wilson, suggested last week that'the nolice in either New South Wales or Queensland had passed information improperly. . , . He found that the motive for the Wilson murders was the discovery by the heroin eana leader. Terrence John Clark, that the Wilsons had talked to Brisbane detectives. However, Mr Hinze said that the Police Commissioner, Mr Terry Lewis, had told him that he was satisfied no Queensland policeman of any rank had connecions with he gang.
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