Minister urges Queensland police to resolve domestic violence victim's compensation case

Exclusive: ‘It’s been going on long enough,’ Mark Ryan says, following officer’s conviction for leak of woman’s details

The Queensland police minister, Mark Ryan, says he wants the police service to resolve its ongoing three-year legal battle to deny compensation to a domestic violence victim whose address was leaked to her former partner by a rogue officer.

Neil Punchard, the senior constable who leaked the woman’s details to her violent former husband, was this month convicted of nine counts of computer hacking and sentenced to a suspended prison term.

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