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pay respect to the Aboriginal

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elders past, present and those

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emerging. Our

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guest on Australian True Crime today

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is Nicole Edwards. She

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served in the Western Australian Police Force for 17

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years until she retired

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on mental health grounds in 2023. Nicole

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was a victim of serial rapist

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Adrian Trevor Moore. Who was also

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a member of WA Police but

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was found guilty in 2022 of assaulting 13 women. Most

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of them had been unaware of what

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had happened to them until they were

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contacted by detectives who'd viewed video evidence

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of their rapes. Unfortunately,

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Nicole's position within WA Police

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didn't mean her case was

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expedited or even that it

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was treated within the normal parameters of

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a sexual assault case. You

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see, because of Adrian's... Moore's position

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within WA Police, they

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decided to keep the investigation within

2:05

their internal affairs department rather

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than send it to the well-trained

2:10

and experienced officers in the sex

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crimes squad. As

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a result, the case and

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the victims were grossly mishandled.

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Nicole Edwards joins us today to tell

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her story. So

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I mean, I first started speaking to him in late 2016 but

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you know, it was 2017 when I've

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kind of met up with him

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like face to face. You know, we

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were both doing our own thing that was mainly

2:40

because we were both exchanged that we

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were both police. So you didn't

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meet three police though, did you? No. Online

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dating. From a

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sexual point of view, he was point

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blank saying that he was the dominator,

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he wanted someone to be the submissive

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person and look,

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my history came from being a

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child abuse and DV victim. So

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nothing surprised me really and it was

3:05

like just listening into him and maybe just

3:07

taking through as a thought process what

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he was talking about. I told

3:13

him that that would not be my position or

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the way I'd want to go. The first time

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I met up with him was by coffee to

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be fair and I've met him like down the

3:22

foreshore in Rockingham where it's close to where I was living at

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the time. We had this copy

3:26

and then he's gone, oh

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look, you know, let's go for a drive, come with

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me. And he's driven out

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to Point Perron and driven into some

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strange spot and then it's all started

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from there because he's parked

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in a car park and put all

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the window shades up and basically then

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told me that it was time

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to perform oral sex with him and he

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started taking photo. You know,

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like I was never happy about it but

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didn't say no to that part either. But as

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soon as I realised he was taking photos, I

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do remember putting my hands up and I was like, I'm sorry, I'm up

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and grabbing him saying, that's enough, I didn't

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think I could take photos. And

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he has said, oh yeah, well

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I'll delete them. And then

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we have an exchange of words, he's dropped

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me back to my car. And then

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I've not had some contact with him for

4:16

a while. He's continued to

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then make the contagious just talk

4:20

sexually in the way he did, continue

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to try and re-link with me

4:25

and I've cancelled another multi-vowt of

4:27

times and then it gets to

4:29

the period where he comes to mind. So

4:33

I remember letting him into, like into the car

4:35

park of where my apartment was and I remember

4:37

the way he spoke to me and I

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was like, I don't like this, I'm not

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great on this. And then he bought

4:44

his huge black bag inside but it

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was full of all his welded

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by himself sexual material

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that I didn't know until long after because I asked him

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what was in it and he said, shut the fuck up.

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Then he bought all the food and all

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the alcohol with his own glasses, everything like

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that. And he did it with his

5:03

back turn. So then he's

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given me a glass of bread wine which I was

5:07

drinking at the time and said, you should have been

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drinking before I got here, I told you that's what

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you should have been doing and

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you haven't done that. And all

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I remember taking is just one mouthful

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and then just things started to go

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really, really difficult really then.

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Basically, it was just like having an anesthetic, my

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body just, I felt it flow through my body and

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then there's a couple of

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things I remember but then the

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next point is, and this is 6 o'clock in the

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evening and the next thing I remember is life at

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the morning and he's still in my home and he's

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right next to me and then

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he bleached my whole house out. And I

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mean like I was obviously

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bleeding extensively from everywhere.

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The offence against me went over about

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a 10 hour period. I didn't

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know that he had filmed any of that at

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the time. I had no knowledge of

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it. what he'd done. He

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basically said to me, get up, get dressed,

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have a shower, we're going to go get

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something to eat and I'm like, I can't

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eat because I've never been so

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unwell. And then he

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insisted on that after he cleaned my apartment,

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then takes me down to have something to eat,

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tells me that I'm never to speak again about

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what's happened. And if I

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need any assistance in my injuries, then you

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know, like I need to just make

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sure I've got the correct story that doesn't

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involve him. So

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obviously, you know, I was

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very unwell that day, but I went into

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work on the Monday and very

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much I did this whole, because I rang

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him several times on the Sunday after he

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left saying, what have you done

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to me? Why am I so injured? And in

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the end, he rang me and he said, I will block you

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if you don't stop this shit. I've told you to

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be quiet now stop it. And

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then he did block me. He blocked

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me for probably would have been two

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or three months he blocked me. And so

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I just went back to

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work and I mean, even

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the fact that you have suffered sex

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abuse and domestic

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violence in your own life and

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you're working then in the sex

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abuse division at work,

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that seems a lot to me and seems

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too much to me, but I'm no expert. How

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much of that do you think he used against you? Look,

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it was really extensive. I think one of the

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things with Adrian Moore is that he had a

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whole booklet on every single one of his victims.

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So he was very clever at... So

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most of the women who are victims

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have come from previous domestic violence relationships

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or sexual violence relationships. And so

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he had a whole book that he's written about

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everyone. And he knew when there

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was someone unwell in your family and he knew when you

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were having an operation or a FES and medical, he had

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it all written down because he was

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a very attentive, very caring, sort

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of a person, he was very clever and to

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you know get my children through a life by

8:24

myself and for me to

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help other people in a situation I can't

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help myself in and that

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is where I found my job

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to be just a total, it

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was my, it was what

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kept me alive every day and

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so he knew everything about why

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I was doing what I was doing and he

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had gone into my story in a

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huge way. When

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I found out he'd been arrested it was

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a substantial amount of time after he had

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been arrested and I saw it in the

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newspaper and it said about him having been

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arrested and his access to the police computers

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but see the last sentence said that he

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was in possession of BCLD which he was

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very heavily into and

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so then I did do a whole police thing

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so now I've got a case so they would

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have done a warrant in his house they would

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have picked up this footage because he's then by

9:23

this stage told me he slept with a lot

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of women and he filmed all of them but

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none of them knew that and

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so now I'm thinking now they've

9:32

got to have this footage. Did you

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realize that you would be one of

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them? Yeah and throughout the whole video

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he asked my name, my PD number,

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my position that I'm working in and

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so for everyone who watches it at internal

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affairs from police they know who

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it is because I've had to say my

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name and position number so then now my

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anxiety is that they would

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have had all this access to his

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filming and I'm thinking that would have gone

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to computer to crime so this many guys have

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seen it and it's gone up in Journal of Affairs

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and this many guys have seen it. So I've done

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this whole investigation in my head and so

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now I'm thinking no I need

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to speak to someone because I don't know what's

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in these videos with me. I know it's heard

10:14

over a long period of time but

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they've seen me and I'm going to work

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every day and it

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took me to go to a superintendent

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and a detective, senior sergeant who had

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a friend in an internist there who

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contacts them and then the first meeting I have

10:30

with them they just say look

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there's over 200 women on video

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and he starts going on and on and he

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goes it's so distressing it's worse than anything I've ever

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seen and I'm like well this is

10:41

18 months afterwards at what time we're on a contact

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meeting he goes oh hang on I'm just looking on

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the running sheet yeah we did contact you and I

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went no you did not and he

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goes oh shit yeah sorry about

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that Nicole I actually yeah I can see what we've

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put here you can send it because you're speaking

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in the videos and I went what

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oh no but

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no I'm telling you I don't remember it. I

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did argue it out to start when I first

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gone to them so then I went to who

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was then the superintendent of sex crime who was

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a female and I went

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to her and I said look they've had this for

11:15

18 months. Sex crime were not

11:17

aware that they had these sexual videos which

11:20

is insane. So it was with internal affairs

11:22

is that who yeah right. So then I

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went and did a meeting with the superintendent

11:26

of sex crime we met at a coffee

11:29

shop somewhere and she

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started taking some notes and closed her book and

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went I don't even know

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about this and so she makes

11:37

an appointment to see the superintendent of

11:40

internal affairs and says what

11:42

in the hell why didn't you tell

11:44

us and it wasn't until that I

11:46

contacted the triple C that they then

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on the Friday and then on the

11:51

Monday sex crime get a call to say oh look

11:54

you might want to come and review what

11:56

we're looking at here and then so sex

11:58

assaults squad did the. review

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and then it was handed to them. So

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but that yeah 18 months two years. Because

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he's a member. Yeah. And you

12:08

know not all of his victims are

12:10

members but they've decided that the

12:12

fact that he's a member of WA Police trumps

12:14

the fact that he's a rapist. Yeah. Unbelievable,

12:19

outrageous, absolutely outrageous.

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So Mr Moore was involved with some

12:25

of our most senior women police officers

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and one in particular

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who her name has continues

12:32

to be suppressed. So

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myself and now the police officers

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that he was involved with were aware

12:39

of this particular senior

12:42

police officer and were

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told that we could never speak up

12:46

because he would always survive through the

12:48

system because he had pictures

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and videos of what he'd done with a

12:53

particular person and that's the

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way he used it with us that we could

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we should never painful to speak and

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that we would cost us

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our own career. My job

13:05

is it cost me mine. How

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was Moore arrested initially? What what

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led to his arrest? So

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it was another police officer she was

13:15

getting concerned about the level of violence

13:18

and she was offended against and

13:20

she made a complaint to internal

13:22

affairs and so then they

13:25

just sort of obviously instead of looking at what he

13:27

was looking at computer wise and what he was doing

13:29

at work and sort of that sort of stuff. So

13:32

they did arrest him and they pulled him over the side

13:34

of the road and he had

13:36

obviously they were able to do the

13:38

warrant because of the BCLD pictures that he had. So in

13:42

2022 Adrian Trevor Moore was

13:46

jailed for 30 years for drugging

13:48

and assaulting women. So

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what happened in the end? How many how

13:53

many known victims? So there was just over

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200 in video they spoke to 167. There

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was 13 who went to court. I

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had to wait till all of the

14:05

process was over before I connected with

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those. There was only myself

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and one police officer who did go

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forward and she

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still remains quiet,

14:16

which is absolutely, I do not blame her

14:18

for. I have connected

14:21

with a number of

14:23

the victims and, look, hearing their

14:25

stories has just been

14:28

absolutely heartbreaking. Absolutely

14:30

heartbreaking. The

14:32

suicidal attempts has been extraordinary.

14:36

I unfortunately have had quite

14:38

a fair go at suicide

14:41

attempts and... Oh, I'm so sorry.

14:43

It's the most horrifying,

14:46

horrifying story

14:48

and situation. And

14:50

you, as you mentioned earlier, you lost your career through

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it. Yeah, I did. Yeah.

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I mean, obviously for me, I still do

14:58

a fair amount of work with my

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psychologist and psychiatrist who, through

15:04

them, I have been extraordinarily

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lucky. And I would

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openly say now that I

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still need to do the work

15:13

with them. And I know when things are hard

15:15

or I'm having a bit of a fall down,

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I do get in contact with

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them. Thank

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you to our guest on Australian True

15:28

Crime, Nicole Edwards. If

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you need support after listening to this podcast, you can

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call Lifeline on 13 11 14 or

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contact 1800RESPECT on 1800 737 732 or 1800respect.org.au.

15:46

Indigenous Australians can contact 13 Yarn on 13 92

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76 or 13yarn.org.au. Thank

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you for downloading this episode of Australian True Crime.

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We'll be back next week.