James Brannigan

And that's still being looked at by the Ombudsman.

But I have to give credit to the uniformed officers on the day.

They felt there was something wrong here.

They were wanted to their senior officers to look at it.

They always thought it was suspicious.

I suppose the detectives that

Really, we're working on the confirmation bias that has been highlighted in this report.

And in another bit of research with Dr. Johnson, over 100 hidden homicides, the prevailing factor in those was the performance by the perpetrator and where you're dealing with a sociopath.

And they're doing a great performance at that time when police walk in the door.

It is the confirmation bias that the police then take on.

And that's what happened in this case.

It was the confirmation bias with those senior detectives.

Totally, yes.

Like when...

Two social workers were going to meet him and these social workers had 18 years experience.

I asked him to come into my office, let them read a statement from one of his victims.

And when they came back, they were shocked.

They were saying, James, we would be telling you you've got this all wrong only for we've read those statements.

You know, he just comes across so plausible.

And this is the way these sociopaths work.