Absent Justice Contact
After Mr Anderson completed his testing on 27 April, the phone took nine days to reach Telstra’s laboratory. It arrived on 6 May, and the laboratory did not begin testing for another four days. Ray Bell, the author of the TF 200 report, was adamant at point 1.3, under the heading Initial Inspection, that:
“The suspect TF200 telephone when received was found to be very dirty around the keypad with what appeared to be a sticky substance, possibly coffee.” (See Tampering With Evidence File No 3)
Clicking the TF200 telephone below shows that a second photo I received under FOI was taken from the front of the same TF200 phone, confirming that the note I placed on it was pretty clean when Telstra received it. See Open Letter File No/37 exhibits 3, 4, 5, and 6. So who smothered the grease over the front of the telephone after it left my business, and who poured sticky beer residue into the same, now dirty telephone, insinuating I was a hopeless drunk?
This report raises several questions. When the phone left my office, it was quite clean. Why did it arrive at the laboratory so filthy? How did the beer get inside the phone? Who would have a reason to pour beer into the phone, and why? If the beer wasn't added deliberately, how did it get inside the phone? The main aim of Telstra’s submitted report, used as evidence, was to prove that Telstra’s service was not at fault.
As soon as I read this beer-in-the-phone report, I asked the arbitrator for a copy of all the laboratory technicians' handwritten notes so he could see how Telstra reached its conclusion. I appointed my forensic document researcher to review the documents upon receipt, and he provided his credentials and signed a confidentiality agreement stating he would not disclose his findings to anyone outside the arbitration procedure. Although I passed all this information on to the arbitrator, the only response I received from the arbitrator and Telstra was a duplicate copy of the report I had already received as part of Telstra’s defence.
Read the full EXICOM TF 200 story by clicking here: → Tampering with Evidence
