Maggie Dawkins

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Australian True Crime · The House of Horrors in Katanning · 13 Sep 2026 podcast

And they obviously had a big spread about, you know, how Dennis had been convicted.

And the journalist who wrote the article, a woman called Pat Gill, she was Pat Fraser then.

Pat actually rang the department where I used to work.

And the department said that, yes, they believed the allegations that I'd raised.

but they had chosen not to investigate or follow them up.

So it was there actually in a journal of record, a newspaper, that I had been believed and that they had decided against doing anything about it, a government department.

And so I found that quite odd but left it alone.

I thought my role was over.

John and I decided in 93, 94 that we were going to move to South Australia and

As we were packing up, I just threw out all my documents and that box of information.

And then out of the blue, and it was completely out of the blue, it was in 2011, in about sort of this time, about August, September.

I got a call from a guy called Peter Watson, who was the local MP in Albany.

And Peter asked me, he said, look, I've got some men in my office and they need some help.

And I went, yeah, certainly.

So how?

And he said, well, they're victims of Dennis McKenna and they're trying to get some compensation from the state government.

And one of them, Mick Hilda...

His mum, Gloria, had kept the newspaper from the Great Southern Herald and they were trying to track me down because I was a public official.

I was an employee of the state government.

I'd raised allegations and it was all in that newspaper.

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