# Reynolds and the Eden Westbrook Case

An episode of [Badge of Betrayal](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1852919243), 11 Aug 2026, 24 min.

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The story of Paul Reynolds reaches into another Tasmanian case — the death of 15-year-old Eden Westbrook. In this special crossover episode with Our Little Edey, Eden’s parents Jason and Amanda explain why they want to know exactly what Reynolds wrote, said and communicated while involved with Eden’s case and the coronial process. We also examine police dispatch records from St Helens, previously unseen call-outs and questions surrounding the morning Eden was found. Given everything now known about Reynolds, should every case he touched be independently reviewed? Support Our Independent Storytelling on Patreon here See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

## Transcript

[0:43] Speaker 1: Since Badger betrayal began, the conversation around police accountability in
[0:47] Speaker 1: Tasmania has continued to grow. A Tasmanian Parliament has now
[0:51] Speaker 1: established a formal inquiry into Tasmanian Police's responses to allegations
[0:56] Speaker 1: of officer misconduct. The inquiry will examine police culture oversight,
[1:02] Speaker 1: the response to the Paul Reynolds matter, including the limited
[1:05] Speaker 1: scope of investigations before the Pice Review, and the decision
[1:09] Speaker 1: to hold a police funeral, and any other related issues.
[1:13] Speaker 1: Public submissions are now open until the fourth of September
[1:17] Speaker 1: twenty twenty six. If you have information you believe could assist,
[1:20] Speaker 1: you can make a submission directly to the committee. We've
[1:23] Speaker 1: put links in the show notes.
[1:27] Speaker 2: We feel as Eden's mom and dad, even if it
[1:31] Speaker 2: we're not allowed to speak about it, we need to
[1:34] Speaker 2: see what that person in Rounds wrote or said about
[1:39] Speaker 2: us and what was written in his investigation given he
[1:42] Speaker 2: was at the helm. Now for that to be hidden
[1:45] Speaker 2: from us and there's so much discrepancy and anomalies found,
[1:49] Speaker 2: we're questioning why you want to hide it from us,
[1:52] Speaker 2: and we need to change that as the people, because
[1:55] Speaker 2: anybody that's gone through what we've gone through and that
[1:58] Speaker 2: we're not alone. Jay, you know that, you know we're
[2:01] Speaker 2: for a dozens of other people's situations, but this is
[2:06] Speaker 2: too serious, and this is about a fifteen year old
[2:09] Speaker 2: girl that we're still unsure eleven years later on what
[2:14] Speaker 2: happened that night. And I've said it before, it's cruel.
[2:17] Speaker 2: J We just that information Paul gave the coroner is
[2:22] Speaker 2: vital to closure.
[2:29] Speaker 1: In this episode, we're speaking to Jason and Amanda Westbrook
[2:32] Speaker 1: about the progress of the Eden Westbrook case and the
[2:34] Speaker 1: connections to Paul Reynolds. We're doing something a little different
[2:38] Speaker 1: this episode and releasing it across both of our feeds
[2:42] Speaker 1: in our Liliti and Badger Betrayal podcast. There may be
[2:46] Speaker 1: some listeners of our Leady that have already found our
[2:48] Speaker 1: podcast Badger Betrayal that looks into Paul Reynolds, but there
[2:52] Speaker 1: might also be some that aren't yet aware. Before we
[2:55] Speaker 1: get into this episode, I just wanted to tell you
[2:58] Speaker 1: that we've started a Patreon page where you can support
[3:01] Speaker 1: independent storytelling like this show. On that Patreon, there'll be
[3:05] Speaker 1: extra episodes and information that we haven't yet shared in
[3:08] Speaker 1: the podcast feed. We'll also share some investigative notes and
[3:12] Speaker 1: other storylines we're researching. If you're interested in supporting it,
[3:16] Speaker 1: are placed a link in the show notes, or you
[3:18] Speaker 1: can search pod shape true Crime on Patreon. Jason and
[3:23] Speaker 1: Amanda have now moved into the house they built together
[3:26] Speaker 1: at ins in Helen's. They're really proud of what they've
[3:28] Speaker 1: built together, and they're even prouder of all their children.
[3:32] Speaker 2: They were literally living in our house the way we
[3:34] Speaker 2: want to. I bought a new TV the lund room
[3:36] Speaker 2: were we've got all the family, probably when she first
[3:40] Speaker 2: left home, she bought this little thing and it says
[3:42] Speaker 2: all because of two people fell in love. And it's
[3:45] Speaker 2: just these words that she gave us. We had above
[3:48] Speaker 2: our bed in the shed, and so we've decided to
[3:50] Speaker 2: put the wall as you walk in the house that
[3:53] Speaker 2: on top of it. So it says all because two
[3:56] Speaker 2: people fell in love. And Hunter's been kind enough to
[4:00] Speaker 2: do a portrait of myself and Amanda in sketch, and
[4:04] Speaker 2: I'll tell you what this kid can draw, and that
[4:07] Speaker 2: goes under it as all because the two people fell
[4:10] Speaker 2: in love. And then we've got all the kids military
[4:12] Speaker 2: photos as you've seen, all in a row, and then
[4:15] Speaker 2: we've got all the others as they're getting their awards.
[4:19] Speaker 2: Because Donny has asked me to wait as he graduates
[4:23] Speaker 2: this month, so he wants his graduation a picture up there.
[4:26] Speaker 2: Sky's just given me a one to do until she graduates.
[4:30] Speaker 2: So basically, it's a wall of honor of the children
[4:33] Speaker 2: and what they've accomplished, and we're sitting at the top
[4:35] Speaker 2: of it, Jay, So it's really a nice thing to
[4:38] Speaker 2: walk into and to be proud of.
[4:40] Speaker 1: There are a lot of people that are asking me
[4:42] Speaker 1: the question via email and through our platforms. Where are
[4:48] Speaker 1: things sitting at the moment with Edan's case? And I
[4:51] Speaker 1: know there's some things we can't talk about publicly, but
[4:54] Speaker 1: from your perspective, Jason and Amanda, where are things sitting
[4:57] Speaker 1: right now with Edan's case?
[4:58] Speaker 3: Yeah?
[4:59] Speaker 4: I really firstly want to say sorry for leaving all
[5:02] Speaker 4: the people. We were so upset last episode. We don't
[5:06] Speaker 4: usually listen to the full episode once it goes to air.
[5:10] Speaker 4: We listen to yours that you give us, and then
[5:13] Speaker 4: you put it together and you say this is what
[5:15] Speaker 4: I'm going to do. Hear that we don't go back,
[5:18] Speaker 4: but I actually went back and listened to the other
[5:19] Speaker 4: one and all I was cringing because we were so
[5:23] Speaker 4: angry and I haven't seen that in Jason, and I
[5:27] Speaker 4: like that that angry and hurts. We're any reasonably good
[5:32] Speaker 4: point at this stage because we've put our submission into
[5:38] Speaker 4: the Law Reform and although we didn't get consolidated on
[5:45] Speaker 4: what and how when the report will come out, we
[5:48] Speaker 4: were a bit offended.
[5:49] Speaker 1: You heard Amanda reference the Law Reform submission. Well, the
[5:53] Speaker 1: Tasmanian Law Reform Institute has a review of the Coroner's
[5:57] Speaker 1: Act of nineteen ninety five. The issue paper is out
[6:00] Speaker 1: now and submissions close for it on the twenty fifth
[6:03] Speaker 1: of September twenty twenty six. Importantly, no reforms have yet
[6:07] Speaker 1: been decided. The paper is essentially asking whether Tasmanian's coronial
[6:12] Speaker 1: system needs changing, and if so how. The types of
[6:16] Speaker 1: questions are asking is which deaths must be reported, what
[6:20] Speaker 1: happens when a death is reported, how colonial investigations are conducted,
[6:24] Speaker 1: when an inquest should be held, how inquests operate, what
[6:28] Speaker 1: findings a coroner can make, colonial recommendations, and the experience
[6:33] Speaker 1: of families. As you can tell, this is all very
[6:36] Speaker 1: relevant to the Eden Westbrook case, as well as many
[6:39] Speaker 1: other cases in Tasmania. Some of which we've reported on
[6:42] Speaker 1: across both of our shows. For our little leading there
[6:46] Speaker 1: are several potential important angles. Jason and Amanda have made
[6:51] Speaker 1: a submission to the reform. However, they're also a little
[6:54] Speaker 1: disappointed that they weren't consulted on the questions being posed
[6:58] Speaker 1: prior to the issue paper being released.
[7:01] Speaker 4: We'll going back to well exactly what I said before,
[7:05] Speaker 4: with the Attorney General inviting us into Parliament, every media
[7:10] Speaker 4: outlet wanting to have a story on it, and then
[7:15] Speaker 4: the Law Reform doesn't think it's necessary to contact us
[7:18] Speaker 4: and have our input on our perspective.
[7:21] Speaker 2: I was disappointed, as you can hear Amana was too,
[7:24] Speaker 2: and as repeating what a Meta said. You know, we
[7:26] Speaker 2: had the all the Teva television networks. It was on
[7:29] Speaker 2: Pronti News that night what had happened in Parliament that day.
[7:33] Speaker 2: The changes made what was happening there was all the
[7:37] Speaker 2: radio stations were talking about it, and it was in
[7:39] Speaker 2: the Mercury and the Examiner, the two major newspapers in Tasmania.
[7:45] Speaker 2: So if it was news for Tasmania and we felt
[7:50] Speaker 2: like we had a big role in that. Jay obviously
[7:52] Speaker 2: to be invited to Parliament that day where we were
[7:55] Speaker 2: able to take our grandchildren and be given special treatment.
[7:58] Speaker 2: As we spoke about previously in one of your episodes,
[8:01] Speaker 2: it was an honor. To be honest, we felt really.
[8:03] Speaker 3: Privileged, didn't We absolutely, And it was disappointing that, given
[8:08] Speaker 3: we'd made that movement, we weren't addressed to maybe consulted.
[8:14] Speaker 2: With wherever we we're over that we addressed. We did
[8:18] Speaker 2: address that in the submission, and we're mature about it
[8:21] Speaker 2: and we'll move on.
[8:23] Speaker 4: Yeah, we need to fix this so everybody can move
[8:30] Speaker 4: on and we don't ever have to come back and
[8:32] Speaker 4: address these situations again down the line. And the only
[8:36] Speaker 4: way we're going to do that is if we all
[8:37] Speaker 4: come together community the brains of the outfit in terms
[8:42] Speaker 4: of the educated people in the law and the politicians,
[8:46] Speaker 4: but the people are so important here. I know we're little,
[8:50] Speaker 4: but we're not where we're really We're living the experiences.
[8:54] Speaker 4: And the only way the politicians find out about how
[8:59] Speaker 4: this has affected them is when they sit down and
[9:01] Speaker 4: hear our story and they feel like, wow, I'm feeling you.
[9:05] Speaker 4: I'm hurt from hearing this story, and I'm going to
[9:08] Speaker 4: do something about it.
[9:08] Speaker 1: There was an issues paper written and the issues paper
[9:11] Speaker 1: is essentially one hundred and sixty seven questions, and it
[9:14] Speaker 1: is overwhelmingly legal and very academic. And so do you
[9:18] Speaker 1: worry that people with lived experience like yourselves are going
[9:23] Speaker 1: to be drowned out by legal experts and institutions. Is
[9:26] Speaker 1: that a worry for you? Because I think reading through
[9:30] Speaker 1: these consultation questions that they're pretty heavy, right, And if
[9:35] Speaker 1: you're an everyday family living in Tasmania with lived experience
[9:39] Speaker 1: like you and Amanda Jason, it feels a bit onerous.
[9:44] Speaker 1: You both try and understand, you know, how a process
[9:48] Speaker 1: like this might work.
[9:50] Speaker 2: It would be so overwhelming. We as Amanda's mentioned previously,
[9:54] Speaker 2: we've got twelve reporting people that have got issues currently
[9:57] Speaker 2: with the Tasmanian colonial system and the way they're being treated.
[10:00] Speaker 2: And like you said, most of the just average people
[10:03] Speaker 2: like us Solid Earth, down to Earth labor and tradees,
[10:06] Speaker 2: you know, family people, and they don't have the educational
[10:10] Speaker 2: background that we've got behind our team. J We're getting
[10:16] Speaker 2: We talk Amana and I and we put our what
[10:21] Speaker 2: our bades on the table, and we've got people, as
[10:25] Speaker 2: you know, that are listening, writing down, documenting and putting
[10:30] Speaker 2: our timelines into perspective. Yeah, what is it? Chronological timeline?
[10:37] Speaker 2: And this isn't Jason in a manner because we're as
[10:40] Speaker 2: you know, we're just we're just too. We are mate,
[10:42] Speaker 2: but we're not either. So and when we get to put.
[10:48] Speaker 5: These submissions in, it's been articulatedly detailed and looked at
[10:53] Speaker 5: by more than one person. We've read it twenty to
[10:57] Speaker 5: thirty times a manner, and it is an It's overwhelming
[11:02] Speaker 5: for me because I'm a landscape gardener.
[11:04] Speaker 1: Mate.
[11:05] Speaker 2: You know, I used to teach football. This sort of
[11:08] Speaker 2: stuff blows my mind. However, if it's important to you
[11:12] Speaker 2: like it is to us, you've got to do.
[11:15] Speaker 1: It your plea, I guess to the Coernial law reform
[11:20] Speaker 1: is around dignity, respect and compassion from the institutions in
[11:25] Speaker 1: dealing with families like you.
[11:27] Speaker 4: Doesn't that just go without saying that you receive those
[11:31] Speaker 4: things when a person passes particular child that hasn't really
[11:35] Speaker 4: lived a life. I mean, it's heart wrenching. I went
[11:38] Speaker 4: in thinking I was going to be supported and everybody
[11:41] Speaker 4: was going to agree and there will you thought start
[11:46] Speaker 4: to the.
[11:47] Speaker 2: Eden's mum and given and dusted.
[11:50] Speaker 3: In a couple of years we know the current does
[11:53] Speaker 3: speak to people because I've had people tell me they've
[11:55] Speaker 3: sut with the current and in similar situations.
[12:00] Speaker 2: I don't know why we didn't get that privilege. And
[12:03] Speaker 2: this is where we think it's detrimental that we find
[12:05] Speaker 2: out what was liaison are all written with Paul Reynolds.
[12:10] Speaker 2: There has to be an email trial or a feed
[12:13] Speaker 2: of correspondence sent from Veenis Sergeant Paul Reynolds to coroner
[12:19] Speaker 2: in Eden's case.
[12:21] Speaker 5: That paragraph to be written regular oversight and direction.
[12:24] Speaker 2: Given it's in my head that that paragraph all the time,
[12:27] Speaker 2: why can't we see what he was saying about Eden's case?
[12:31] Speaker 2: The investor given he was lying to Amanda, where's the
[12:34] Speaker 2: clear eye?
[12:35] Speaker 4: Oh?
[12:35] Speaker 2: Amanda asked, arect I was there over Branda Shaulder. She
[12:38] Speaker 2: asked direct questions to see sard Paul Reynolds.
[12:41] Speaker 5: That was pretty hard.
[12:43] Speaker 2: Was Eden sexually assaulted? And he said nay, he didn't
[12:48] Speaker 2: even do it sexual assault test on her. They didn't
[12:51] Speaker 2: do any of that, Jade. So he lied to her
[12:54] Speaker 2: on that day to give her a peace of mind.
[12:56] Speaker 2: I don't know it because he failed in that.
[12:58] Speaker 4: Aparent peace of mind. That's just down right line.
[13:00] Speaker 2: So well, he clearly didn't mind lying to a grieving mother,
[13:04] Speaker 2: and that's a pretty direct question to ask to senior
[13:07] Speaker 2: investigator of your daughter's crime death. Listening to your podcast
[13:12] Speaker 2: Badger Portrayal, we know Senior Sergeant Paul Reynolds was a
[13:17] Speaker 2: gostaper and a gas lighter, and he liked to get
[13:20] Speaker 2: things done his way, and he was corrupt and a criminal.
[13:24] Speaker 2: And I can say that because I feel it's three
[13:27] Speaker 2: Jay now when you've got that man regular insight direction,
[13:32] Speaker 2: liaisoning with the coroner, and we now know through what
[13:36] Speaker 2: you've found out, we feel, as Eden's mum and dad,
[13:40] Speaker 2: even if it's we're not allowed to speak about it,
[13:42] Speaker 2: we need to see what that person Rounds wrote or
[13:48] Speaker 2: said about us and what was written in his investigation
[13:51] Speaker 2: given he was at the helm and as we know
[13:54] Speaker 2: throughout investigating our own information, there was a known pedophil
[14:01] Speaker 2: in the area, and I think we can because it's
[14:04] Speaker 2: been found and we know there's police working at the
[14:09] Speaker 2: time that were asking young girls late at night for
[14:13] Speaker 2: sexual favorites. Eden was out late at night.
[14:19] Speaker 1: The biggest question I keep getting asked, and I think
[14:22] Speaker 1: it's just a one to ask straight out, are you
[14:25] Speaker 1: vying to try and have Eden's case reopened.
[14:29] Speaker 2: Yes, absolutely, Yes, without a doubt. Day of death has
[14:34] Speaker 2: to be correct, and I think the only way that
[14:36] Speaker 2: they'll fix that Jay is obviously have that I reopened.
[14:41] Speaker 2: They're not going to change it, Mate that what they did.
[14:43] Speaker 1: He changes.
[14:44] Speaker 2: They change what they're updating on Eden as they feel fit,
[14:49] Speaker 2: and it's all in their favor. We are unhappy with
[14:53] Speaker 2: what's written online about Eden in their favor. We want
[14:58] Speaker 2: to see the truth written a date to death right
[15:00] Speaker 2: and we want to know what involvement Senior Sergeant Paul
[15:02] Speaker 2: Reynolds had with the coroner in that liaisoning and regular
[15:05] Speaker 2: oversight and direction given that's got to happen, and we're
[15:08] Speaker 2: not going to find that out without that in quest.
[15:14] Speaker 1: Once I hit stop on our recording, which asked in Amanda,
[15:17] Speaker 1: we got into some other details that we can't yet
[15:20] Speaker 1: bring you on the podcast, and it got us talking
[15:22] Speaker 1: about the night that Eden was found. Now we're going
[15:25] Speaker 1: to be using some of the data from police records
[15:28] Speaker 1: from the eighteenth of February twenty and fifteen. We've told
[15:31] Speaker 1: you in a previous podcast that we have copies of
[15:34] Speaker 1: the operational dispatch incidents for Saint Helen's from January twenty
[15:38] Speaker 1: fifteen until December twenty sixteen, and after my conversation with
[15:42] Speaker 1: Jason and Amanda, I wanted to go back to these
[15:45] Speaker 1: records to see if there was any more we could
[15:47] Speaker 1: see from them. Let me take you back to that
[15:51] Speaker 1: night in Saint Helen's when Eden was found. It was
[15:54] Speaker 1: a new moon. That's exactly the opposite to a full moon,
[15:58] Speaker 1: which means that it was very dim. There was no
[16:01] Speaker 1: real illumination at all that night from the moon. Historical
[16:06] Speaker 1: data for Saint Helen's indicates that conditions during the evening
[16:09] Speaker 1: were partly cloudy, becoming clearer overnight. At around midnight, it
[16:14] Speaker 1: was about sixteen degrees. It seems like a busy night
[16:19] Speaker 1: that night for police in Saint Helen's. On the seventeenth
[16:23] Speaker 1: of February, the evening before Eden was found, two officers,
[16:27] Speaker 1: Gordon and King, attended a boat adrift in the harbor.
[16:31] Speaker 1: It was said to be manned. Gordon was also one
[16:33] Speaker 1: of the first police on the scene for Eden's death.
[16:41] Speaker 1: Less than five hundred meters from where Eden was found,
[16:44] Speaker 1: there was a call to police from Heather Place. It
[16:47] Speaker 1: was a keep the peace call out via radio at
[16:50] Speaker 1: two five eight coms, can you attend Heather Place for
[16:53] Speaker 1: a keep the peace job? Police arrive and there is
[16:56] Speaker 1: no further action. There was another interesting call out on
[17:01] Speaker 1: the eighteenth of February twenty fifteen. This time it was
[17:04] Speaker 1: around lunchtime. It was on the Tasman Highway. Now it's
[17:08] Speaker 1: a long highway, but it runs straight past the park
[17:11] Speaker 1: where Eden was found. It was a concern for welfare
[17:14] Speaker 1: call and it was attended by two officers, Bonner and Richie.
[17:19] Speaker 1: The call out said that there was a female dressed
[17:22] Speaker 1: in black running along the highway towards Saint Helen's yelling
[17:27] Speaker 1: and crying. We hadn't seen this before. We don't know
[17:31] Speaker 1: who this person was. What we do know is the
[17:34] Speaker 1: woman that we've called Kate throughout this series was distressed
[17:37] Speaker 1: about Eden. The allegation is that she told people that
[17:41] Speaker 1: she could have stopped it. Now we're not saying this
[17:43] Speaker 1: woman was Kate, that it does open up a new
[17:45] Speaker 1: angle of questions for us. On the eighteenth, at six
[17:49] Speaker 1: fifty seven am, the one and only call was made
[17:52] Speaker 1: to Triple O by the delivery driver that spotted Eden
[17:56] Speaker 1: in the park. Now it feels unusual that only one
[18:00] Speaker 1: person made a call to Triple O or crime stoppers.
[18:04] Speaker 1: Given the location, it was very public and as we've heard,
[18:08] Speaker 1: school buses and cars were driving past all morning.
[18:11] Speaker 6: Well I didn't see it personally, but I was on
[18:13] Speaker 6: the off side of the bus. But all I really
[18:16] Speaker 6: remember is everyone sort of gathering on one side of
[18:19] Speaker 6: the bus, and then everyone's sort of quickly looking away,
[18:24] Speaker 6: and a lot of people just looking sick. So and
[18:28] Speaker 6: then when I finally got to school, probably about half
[18:31] Speaker 6: an hour later, you just start hearing rumors about who
[18:34] Speaker 6: it actually was, and then sort of school let everyone
[18:38] Speaker 6: off saying about it. And then when we finally went back,
[18:44] Speaker 6: they hadn't done a great job of actually blocking the
[18:47] Speaker 6: site because when the school bus went straight fast, she
[18:50] Speaker 6: could see her. So it was not a pleasant site.
[18:55] Speaker 1: Police have said in their ARTSI response that there was
[18:58] Speaker 1: only one Triple zero call, but that flies in the
[19:01] Speaker 1: face of the evidence that we've seen. There is a
[19:03] Speaker 1: witness statement from the day it was made under oath.
[19:06] Speaker 1: We've used a voice actor to read the statement.
[19:09] Speaker 7: At about seven oh five am, a lady came to
[19:12] Speaker 7: the hospital and walked up to the counter and she
[19:15] Speaker 7: told us that she had found a young girl hanging
[19:17] Speaker 7: in a tree in a park near the Salty Seas Road.
[19:21] Speaker 7: She said that she had called emergency services and that
[19:24] Speaker 7: it would be a while until someone arrived at the scene.
[19:27] Speaker 7: We were working day shift. Two other staff were still
[19:31] Speaker 7: at the hospital, so my colleague and I drove in
[19:33] Speaker 7: her car to where the young girl was and went
[19:36] Speaker 7: to check if there were signs of life in case
[19:38] Speaker 7: there was something that we could do to help her.
[19:41] Speaker 7: A staff member called Triple zero and spoke to Emergency
[19:44] Speaker 7: Services to ensure they were aware of the incident.
[19:48] Speaker 1: Jason and Amanda also told me that they knew an
[19:50] Speaker 1: employee at a nearby business who told them that they'd
[19:54] Speaker 1: made a call to Triple zero. That that's not been
[19:56] Speaker 1: recorded in the information we've received. There was also an
[19:59] Speaker 1: RTI request made for all crime stoppers calls that were
[20:03] Speaker 1: relevant on the morning of Eden's death. Police refused that
[20:06] Speaker 1: particular RTI request, as they argued all crime stoppers' reports
[20:11] Speaker 1: are fully exempt pursuant to Section thirty of the RTI Act.
[20:19] Speaker 1: The police records showed there were ten officers attending Eden's death.
[20:23] Speaker 1: A Medea Cove from Saint Helen's Police Force, Tom Gordon
[20:27] Speaker 1: was first on the scene. Just a few hours later,
[20:30] Speaker 1: at nine point thirty seven am, police took a call
[20:32] Speaker 1: for assistance from the hospital. They called to say a
[20:36] Speaker 1: woman had checked herself out of the hospital with a
[20:39] Speaker 1: canulate still in her hand for IV access. She had
[20:43] Speaker 1: a history of drug gets police needed to return her
[20:46] Speaker 1: to the hospital to have it removed. Tom Gordon was
[20:50] Speaker 1: the officer that picked this person up. The record show
[20:54] Speaker 1: that this dispatch happened at nine point thirty seven and
[20:56] Speaker 1: Gordon arrived back with the patient at eleven six am
[21:01] Speaker 1: on the eighteenth of February. The final piece that's been
[21:04] Speaker 1: uncovered by this extra research and from our previous chats
[21:08] Speaker 1: to guests who have been on the podcast, is that
[21:10] Speaker 1: on the twentieth of February, police responded to an incident
[21:14] Speaker 1: with a mentally disturbed person in hospital. A person has
[21:18] Speaker 1: been identified as the woman we're calling Kate. Now, we're
[21:21] Speaker 1: not alleging that any officer has done anything wrong. We're
[21:25] Speaker 1: just putting a timeline together that we haven't yet seen before.
[21:29] Speaker 1: It's important to ask these questions now. Some of the
[21:36] Speaker 1: questions we've just posed are now deeply entangled in Tasmanian's
[21:40] Speaker 1: coronial process, a process itself that is under a view,
[21:44] Speaker 1: and we can only hope that proposed reforms finally begin
[21:48] Speaker 1: to unravel how a case like Eden's could leave a
[21:50] Speaker 1: family with so many doubts, so many inconsistencies, and so
[21:55] Speaker 1: many unsatisfactory answers more than a decade later. And then
[22:00] Speaker 1: there's a role of Paul Reynolds, a police officer who
[22:03] Speaker 1: was the subject of serious findings. He was working in
[22:08] Speaker 1: the coroner's office at the time. He was helping with
[22:11] Speaker 1: Eden's case, in a position of significant responsibility and trust.
[22:16] Speaker 1: We don't know yet if that means anything for Eden's case,
[22:21] Speaker 1: but surely it raises a question that no longer can
[22:23] Speaker 1: simply be brushed aside. Should every piece of work Reynolds
[22:28] Speaker 1: was involved in, every decision, every document, every interaction, and
[22:33] Speaker 1: every piece of information that passed through his hands now
[22:37] Speaker 1: be independently reviewed. And beyond the colonial process and these
[22:41] Speaker 1: questions around Reynolds, there's still original police investigation in sin Helens.
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