Friday 30 September 2022 04:38 PM Ex-William Tyrrell cop Gary Jubelin's rambling 340-page book - but has he let ... trends now

Friday 30 September 2022 04:38 PM Ex-William Tyrrell cop Gary Jubelin's rambling 340-page book - but has he let ... trends now
Friday 30 September 2022 04:38 PM Ex-William Tyrrell cop Gary Jubelin's rambling 340-page book  - but has he let ... trends now

Friday 30 September 2022 04:38 PM Ex-William Tyrrell cop Gary Jubelin's rambling 340-page book - but has he let ... trends now

From its opening page, ex-cop Gary Jubelin's new book Badness, is more about himself than its apparent premise, an examination of the notion of evil.

The book's opening chapter, after an unfortunate error about William Tyrrell's birth date on the dedication page, sets the tone with the celebrity former detective stating:  'I'm convinced I did the right thing'.

Writing about the illegal recordings of a now discounted Tyrrell suspect which cost him his career establishes a theme to which he will return again and again. 

Throughout 340 pages of text, the 57-year-old long-time detective revisits some of Australia's worst crimes chronicled in his I Catch Killers podcast, such as the Port Arthur massacre, the Anita Cobby murder, the Granny killer case and Ivan Milat's serial killings. 

In the book, Jubelin describes his post-police relationships with notorious criminals like Graham Henry and John Killick and how as a cop-turned-author he bonded with the crim-turned author, Bernie Matthews, who died last year.

He boxes with former inmates at famous trainer Johnny Lewis's gym, and interviews a psychologist, a neuroscientist and others about the subject of his book title, his preferred synonym for evil.  

Gary Jubelin at court with supporters including Mark Leveson, father of Matt Leveson, during the ex-detective's failed appeal against his conviction for illegally recording a William Tyrrell witness

Gary Jubelin at court with supporters including Mark Leveson, father of Matt Leveson, during the ex-detective's failed appeal against his conviction for illegally recording a William Tyrrell witness

Jubelin was taken off the investigation into William Tyrrell's (above) disappearance, then left the police force and was prosecuted, all of which he rails against  in his book, Badness

Jubelin was taken off the investigation into William Tyrrell's (above) disappearance, then left the police force and was prosecuted, all of which he rails against  in his book, Badness

But the recurring theme of Badness is of a sidelined cop heckling from the wings,   re-arguing outside the court room the cases brought against him, and taking potshots against the police who took over the Tyrrell investigation.

Jubelin scoffs at the Strike Force Rosann detectives' efforts on the case, protesting that he's already tried it or that, say, unearthing up cloth at the Tyrrell dig at Kendall was futile because it's all been done before.

Media walk-throughs - with Jubelin always clad in trademark black suit, white shirt and black tie - were part of his own detecting career: at the Bowraville murder scene, at Kendall for Tyrrell in 2018 and the extraordinary unearthing of Matthew Leveson's remains in the Royal National Park.

The Bowraville and Leveson cases remain unresolved for legal reasons.

Nonetheless, Jubelin's work has earned him legendary status with victims including the Bowraville families, William Tyrrell's foster parents and Matthew's parents Mark and Faye Leveson in the successful quest to bring their son home.

Police interview William Spedding, the washing machine repairman who proved totally blameless of any crime and who is now suing NSW police for malicious prosecution

Police interview William Spedding, the washing machine repairman who proved totally blameless of any crime and who is now suing NSW police for malicious prosecution

Detective Chief Inspector David Laidlaw (above, black t-shirt, at the William Tyrrell dig last November), who Jubelin accuses of  filming  a police walk through like ''a B-grade piece of television'

Detective Chief Inspector David Laidlaw (above, black t-shirt, at the William Tyrrell dig last November), who Jubelin accuses of  filming  a police walk through like ''a B-grade piece of television'

Gary Jubelin interviews  Paul Savage, the Kendall neighbour he illegally recorded and who also proved to have nothing to do with the disappearance of William Tyrrell

Gary Jubelin interviews  Paul Savage, the Kendall neighbour he illegally recorded and who also proved to have nothing to do with the disappearance of William Tyrrell 

But he ridicules his Tyrrell successor, Detective Chief Inspector David Laidlaw's filmed walk-through of Kendall locations as 'a B-grade piece of television'.

Jubelin criticises his successors for giving a story to a newspaper to 'build pressure' on a possible suspect, and characterises the act as possible 'badness', his synonym for evil. 

His railings against the Tyrrell investigation after he left might sound like he is wounded, but they sometimes let an accidental - or maybe deliberate - cat out of the bag.

Jubelin reveals he knew back in 2016 about William Tyrrell's foster mother driving from her mother's house down to Batar Creek Road on the day William disappeared.

This information was flagged with some fanfare by the new team of detectives on the case at the latest 'high intensity' dig at Kendall in November 2021.

So why was it kept secret from the public and not examined at the inquest, and not mentioned in the foster grandmother's detailed police crime scene walk-through?

In the foster mother's testimony under questioning by counsel assisting the inquest, Gerard Craddock, she was led through the immediate aftermath of William's disappearance, in Benaroon Drive with two women neighbours, before the foster father's arrival back home.

Jubelin in his trademark black suit and tie with Mark and Faye Leveson at the dig in the Royal National Park for the remains of their son Matt Leveson after the so-called 'deal with the devil' over a person of interest

Jubelin in his trademark black suit and tie with Mark and Faye Leveson at the dig in the Royal National Park for the remains of their son Matt Leveson after the so-called 'deal with the devil' over a person of interest

Jubelin in the Royal National Park as diggers searched for the remains of Matthew Leveson so that the young man's parents could take him home and give him a decent burial

Jubelin in the Royal National Park as diggers searched for the remains of Matthew Leveson so that the young man's parents could take him home and give him a decent burial

Jubelin investigated the murders at Bowraville on the NSW Mid North Coast of indigenous children (left to right), Colleen Walker, Clinton Speedy-Duroux and Evelyn Greenup

Jubelin investigated the murders at Bowraville on the NSW Mid North Coast of indigenous children (left to right), Colleen Walker, Clinton Speedy-Duroux and Evelyn Greenup

And, in a claim not previously disclosed publicly, on page 259 of Badness, Jubelin says the foster mother 'then got out and ran around, apparently looking around for the three-year-old'.

Was this near the former disabled riding school site at Kendall, where police stated last year she merely stopped the car, possibly 'threw an item out of the window' and then turned back, deciding 'William wouldn't have travelled this far'?

Is Jubelin telling us that when officers and firefighters searched the site last year, they did so not for an item thrown out of a car window, but something more?

And when

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