The Australian Federal Police has suspended an officer after he consulted a clairvoyant about a death threat made to the Prime Minister. | They knew this would happen, of course... |
The Sunday Age named Elizabeth Walker, a Scottish-born medium based in the NSW Snowy Mountains town of Cooma, as the clairvoyant. She told the newspaper she could not comment but added: "I don't divulge any of the stuff I do. I've done lots of people. I've done political people, famous people, but I don't talk about who's been in. I don't even discuss it with my husband."
AFP senior staff were alerted to the security breach in December. The officer was not part of John Howard's personal AFP security detail but knew about the death threat and that it was being treated seriously. Knowing some investigations had hit a wall, the officer took matters into his own hands and turned to Mrs Walker. A spokesman for Mr Howard said: "We don't run the AFP and, if there is a matter regarding discipline or an individual officer, it really is something for them to deal with."
| "All we need is an after-action report in triplicate and his scalp." |