NSW: Man jailed for posing as police and menacing elderly woman

AAP General News (Australia)
08-19-2008
NSW: Man jailed for posing as police and menacing elderly woman

A Sydney private eye who posed as a federal police agent .. and sent a 77-year-old
woman a menacing letter .. has been jailed for 12 months.

Magistrate PAT O'SHANE has ruled that BRETT SUTCLIFFE will be eligible for release
after nine months .. and must then enter into a 12-month .. five thousand dollar .. good
behaviour bond.

The magistrate also imposed a five thousand dollar fine on SUTCLIFFE .. a former director
of private investigation firm Spousebusters.

He pleaded guilty to impersonating a Commonwealth public official and using the postal
service to menace the elderly woman .. who challenged him for parking in a disabled parking
zone near her North Bondi home last July.

SUTCLIFFE sent the woman a letter .. purportedly on Federal Police letterhead .. warning
she had wrongly interfered with an AFP investigation.

Ms O'SHANE says the letter involved significant intimidation of an elderly woman.

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KEYWORD: SUTCLIFFE (SYDNEY)

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