Hapeta jailed for life
NZPA-AAP Brisbane One of the main witnesses at the Fitzgerald Inquiry into corruption has been jailed for life after a Brisbane Supreme Court jury verdict. Hector Brandon Hapeta, aged 48, of Brisbane, was found guilty of trafficking and possessing heroin. Hapeta was one of five people named in the Fitzgerald Inquiry’s terms of reference when it was set up in 1987. He allegedly ran one of Queensland’s biggest brothel empires and paid tens of thousands of dollars in protection money to a police bribes bagman, Jack Reginald Herbert. Also sentenced to life imprisonment were Hapeta’s half-brother, Daniel John Convery, aged 32, and Jeffrey Shane Jones, 20. The two were found guilty of possessing the drug but not guilty of trafficking it. The three men were involved with heroin brought from Sydney between January and September last year. Hapeta’s wife, Anne Marie Tilley, wept in the courtroom after Hapeta was sentenced. The three were convicted after a protected Fitzgerald Inquiry witness testified about their drug dealings.
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Press, 26 June 1989, Page 10
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