MOTI TO BE TRIED FOR CHILD SEX

AFP

Former Solomon Islands attorney-general Julian Moti will be tried in Australia for the alleged rape of a 13-year-old girl in Vanuatu after an appeals court Friday overturned a freeze on the case.

Fiji-born Moti won a permanent stay on the case in December, after a Brisbane Supreme Court ruling that Australian police payments to the alleged victim and her family "brought the administration of justice into disrepute".

The judge said the police payments, made to compensate the victim's family while she made her case against Moti, raised serious questions about Australia's justice system and were an "affront to the public conscience".

But the Court of Criminal Appeal Friday overturned the stay, finding the payments were not made in bad faith or without authority, and that the charges against Moti -- an Australian citizen -- were too serious to be abandoned.

"This was a different case from the ordinary example of an Australian tourist on a short trip abroad taking advantage of individual children over a short period of time," said appeal judge Cate Holmes.

"The case was an exceptional one because the offences were committed over a six-month period against a 13-year-old complainant, with allegations of very serious sexual assault, in circumstances where the accused was 20 years older than the complainant and had some ability to interfere in the machinery of government."

Charges over the 1997 rape were orignally dismissed by a Vanuatu court and Moti said Australia only revived them in 2006 to stop him from becoming attorney-general of the Solomon Islands.

He sparked a diplomatic row after skipping bail in Papua New Guinea and fleeing via military aircraft to the Solomon Islands.

Then-Solomons prime minister Manasseh Sogavare appointed Moti attorney-general and refused to extradite him, prompting strong protests from Australia.

Moti was ultimately deported when Sogavare was ousted in December 2007, and will now be tried on the charges at a date to be determined.

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  1. The Qld Court of Appeal really said the previous decision by the Supreme Court to stay that case because of witness bribery payments was wrong! This is a significant decision for Australian Justice System. Yes Police in Australia can bribe witnesses to tell lies or whatever and it is perfectly legal according to the Qld Court of Appeal! Hang on! Did we hear that corect??? Since when did bribing of witnesses become legal? We thought Australian Justice system was advanced!!! We have been deceived by them all along...or is it just in QLD red neck country that they practice red neck justice!!! Yes someone tell us that no one from the Federal Labour Government whispered to te Judges about their next promotion to the Federal Court or even the High Court??? No wonder the Queensland Supreme Court, the court Of Appeal and the Solomon Islands Chief Justice who came from the Queensland Judiciary all cllaborate to run the RAMSI run Solomon Islands High Court. It was RAMSI paid Chief Justice Palmer of the Solomon Islands High Court who gave the judgement to enable Moti to be removed by the AFP to Australia. Now his Friends on the Bench in Brisbane make sure they lock Moti up. What a neat little arrangement! Only the Australian public are not aware of your cozy arrangements your dishonourable Honours! Worse still the Pacific people are the ones who thought justice shone out of your rear cavities but instead what comes out really stinks! Next time Palmer comes over for a little chat to congratulate you on how you nicely spliced hairs on corruption and bribery as you raise your glasses to semantics...remember,its people like you who should be locked away for your hypocracy and belittling of the rest of the population of Australia by insulting our intelligence.

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  2. Sounds like Peter Pena talking crap again.

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  3. I think this sounds like PP too - an emotive delivery - but not entirely crap

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