Whats the line between that kind of corruption and taking money?
I mean is there a line? Well there is definitely a line in your mind because there would have no doubt in the world been plenty of blokes willing to verbal and load that weren’t willing to take money. You’re sort of going up a scale if I could say. I think I said in the witness box here you jump a fence when you do those sort of things and there’s obviously several fences to jump. You’d put stealin’ money definitely over another fence and it was definitely less rife than… as I said, I’d estimate in the late 70’s, early 80’s, that probably, it’s hard to put a figure on it but in my experience probably 80% would have been prepared to verbal and what you have but greatly reduced odds for people that were prepared to steal money. See you used to justify your stealing money from say a druggie’s place by this. One, if I declare we found the money at his house I’d charge him with Goods in Custody. There’s a perception that a Goods in Custody is an easy charge to prove because the onus of pr
