Christian Porter.

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NSW detectives investigating the historical rape allegation against former attorney-general Christian Porter were denied permission to travel to South Australia to interview the complainant by the state's police Deputy Commissioner David Hudson.

This was despite the trip having been recommended for approval by the head of the NSW Police Child Abuse and Sex Crimes Squad.

Four Corners can reveal Deputy Commissioner David Hudson declined to approve the trip during the March 2020 COVID restrictions, citing "insufficient detail … to justify why this travel cannot be deferred."

The revelation is included in a new cache of documents provided by NSW Police (NSWP) to the state's parliament, in response to an 'order for papers' in relation to Strike Force Wyndarra, which was set up to investigate the allegation.

The documents contain previously undisclosed details of the actions of NSW Police and their South Australian counterparts during the investigation.

Christian Porter has strenuously denied the allegation and is currently suing the ABC for defamation.

The woman, who had a history of mental illness, took her own life on June 24 last year, the day after she told police "she no longer felt able to proceed with the report [to police]".

The documents reveal two days earlier, NSW police emailed her to discuss her availability and for a "victim welfare check and travel status update".

Interview process handled between SA and NSW police over several months
The documents show the complainant first contacted SA Police (SAPOL) in November 2019, "seeking information on the process involved in reporting a sexual assault".

She did not want to make a formal statement at this stage but indicated "she may decide to make a formal report to NSWP at a later stage".

SAPOL forwarded the initial information to NSW Police because the alleged incident had occurred in Sydney, one evening during an elite debating competition in 1988.

SAPOL advised, "should the [alleged] victim decide to formally report the matter, that they would again contact the NSWPF to commence an investigation".

Over the following months, SAPOL met or spoke with the complainant several times and continued to provide "victim support".

In February 2020, the complainant contacted SAPOL again to tell them she was now ready to make a statement. At the time, the woman was in Sydney to discuss the allegation with her lawyer and "had decided she wanted to meet with NSWPF to formally report the matter".

https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australi ... d=msedgdhp

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