Paul FC McGirr was successful in having a number of guns charges dismissed against our client Beaudie Cullen due to a poor investigation by Police.

Mr McGirr told the court “you can tell how interested the police were when you listen to the video of the yawning going on” during the investigation before they found the gun safe.

Under cross-examination, Mr George admitted there were several “oversights” in the investigation.

This included not getting the boxes of ammunition DNA and forensically tested.

There were also no fingerprints matching Mr Cullen’s on the bullets in the magazine, which would have had have been pushed in individually when loaded.

Mr George told the court that documents with Mr Cullen’s name on them were in the box, leading to him concluding the bullets were in his possession.

“Sergeant ... if I go around to your house and I leave my card in your house it doesn’t mean I own everything else around there, does it? I hope you say yes but I don’t think that’s the way it works,” Mr McGirr said.

Magistrate Bradd dismissed the charges and awarded $22,000 costs to the defendant.

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