In 2020, one of the top detectives in NSW ran afoul of the law
by illegally recording conversations; an act that led him to leave
the police force in the middle of a major investigation.
Former Detective Chief Inspector Gary Jubelin lost an appeal in
the District Court against his conviction and $10,000 fine for
illegally recording conversations with someone he considered at the
time to be a "person of interest" in the investigation
into the disappearance of three-year-old William Tyrrell in
2014.
Jubelin found guilty of covertly recording four
conversations
Mr Jubelin, who had led the investigation, quit the force in
2019 after the illegal recording charges were brought against him.
In April 2020, Mr Jubelin was found guilty in the Local Court of
secretly recording four conversations with a man who lived next
door to the missing boy.
