How Hard Did Police Look For Janine
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Was there a police cover-up in the disappearance of Bathurst woman Janine Vaughan and the subsequent police investigation.
The circumstances surrounding 31-year-old Vaughan's disappearance are still listed on the Australian Federal Police's missing persons website.
The NSW Police Integrity Commission’s relations with rank and file police are hardly likely to improve following the corruption watchdog’s decision to probe the circumstances surrounding the disappearance of Bathurst woman Janine Vaughan and the subsequent police investigation.
Part of the PIC inquiry, which will include public hearings, is almost certain to look at how one of NSW’s top detectives, Detective Inspector Paul Jacob, ran the original investigation after Vaughan vanished in December 2001.
Inspector Jacob is arguable NSW’s best known and most respected detectives. Last week he returned from London with Rene Rivkin’s former chauffeur Gordon Wood, whom he charged with the murder of 24-year-old model Caroline Byrne.
He’s no stranger to high profile cases, having been responsible for jailing serial granny killer John Wayne Glover and the murderer of heart transplant surgeon Victor Chang.
But already there’s reported rumblings of unrest within sectors of the force over the PIC’s move, which is being seen as unnecessarily damaging to Inspector Jacob.
The PIC confirmed on Friday it would hold the inquiry into the conduct of the police investigation of Janine Vaughan’s disappearance, including holding a public hearing in Orange on June 5.
At the centre of the PIC probe is an allegation that Vaughan had been involved in a relationship with a local police officer before she disappeared and that the relationship was not fully investigated at the time. The Sunday Telegraph reported yesterday that the local policeman was related to a senior NSW police officer.
The circumstances surrounding 31-year-old Vaughan’s disappearance are still listed on the Australian Federal Police’s missing persons website.
She was last seen after a night out with friends getting into a bright red medium-sized car about 4am on December 7, 2001 in Bathurst’s Keppel St. Police concluded at the time that she must have known the car’s driver because she did not hesitate before getting in.
During the investigation police spoke to more than 1000 people and took hundreds of statements. In June 2002, six months after Vaughan’s disappearance, police and 60 State Emergency Service officers unsuccessfully searched Mount Panorama, the site of Bathurst’s famous motor race, for the missing woman’s body.
In December 2003 police released home video of Vaughan at a family christening in a last bid to find out what happened to her.
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