Jacqui Felgate slams magistrate’s ‘outrageous’ decision

Jacqui Felgate has slammed a magistrate’s decision to grant a holiday request to an academic accused of possessing child abuse material.

Retired judge-turned legal academic, Alan Boulton, who allegedly accidentally flashed the material on the screen during a lecture at Monash University, has on Thursday been approved by a magistrate to go on a European holiday.

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“Someone who is charged with allegedly possessing child abuse material … Can still go for a lovely summer in Europe, and that is outrageous,” she said on 3AW.

 Former Magistrate and Dean of Law at Southern Cross University, Professor David Heilpern, said the decision “surprised” him. 

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“The last thing you would want is the person to be leaving the jurisdiction … And going somewhere where it could be really difficult to get him back,” he said on 3AW Drive. 

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