Pubdate: Wed, 16 May 2001
Source: Sydney Morning Herald (Australia)
Copyright: 2001 The Sydney Morning Herald
Contact:  http://www.smh.com.au/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/441
Author: Stephen Gibbs

COURT TOLD OF DETECTIVE'S DEMANDS FOR COCAINE AND ECSTASY

Hours after denying on oath that he had been corrupt, Acting Detective
Inspector Wayne Eade had arrived at the Central Coast home of his
police-informant lover.

"I've had a c--- of a day," Eade had told the woman, now codenamed
Glenda Unwin. "I was before the [Wood] Royal Commission today."

After further conversations, in which Eade had told Ms Unwin "I think
you've given me up" and expressed worry about going to jail, the
detective had left the house with a bag of cocaine.

It was after 10pm on September 7, 1995, and, according to Ms Unwin,
her visitor was drunk.

Ms Unwin gave evidence yesterday in the District Court trial of Eade,
who has pleaded not guilty to knowingly giving false testimony to the
Wood Royal Commission and to inciting Ms Unwin to supply ecstasy.

The perjury charge relates to Eade's denial before Justice Wood that
he had engaged in corrupt conduct and is allegedly supported by
evidence recorded using secretly installed listening devices and cameras.

Eade has formally conceded that on three of the days he was recorded
at Ms Unwin's home - August 27, August 30 and September 7, 1995 - he
had left the premises carrying cocaine, cannabis and cocaine
respectively.

Videos screened in court yesterday included Eade saying "I'm gonna
want some coke" and "I need some eccy tablets for a couple of blokes
at work".

But his counsel, Mr Robert Bromwich, has told the jury that "this is
not as easy as the Crown would have you believe" and "not to take
everything at face value".

Ms Unwin spoke yesterday of meeting Eade about two years before
September 1995, through another detective for whom she had been an
informant. She had been Eade's informant and had later begun a
personal relationship with him that had become sexual. It was then
that Eade had started using drugs and had begun drinking heavily.

Ms Unwin said she had presumed the cocaine and cannabis she had given
Eade were for personal use but conceded his inquiries about ecstasy
could have been related to a police investigation into the supply of
that drug.
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