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Speaker 4The family of missing Bathurst woman, Janine Vaughan, has made an emotional plea for information into her whereabouts. To be quite blunt with you, the moment this, if he's done it, arrests the man.
Speaker 5This stuff has tortured me for a long time. It drives me insane. It breaks my freaking heart.
Speaker 3The Bathurst Courthouse is an imposing building of sandstone with great pillars guarding its entrance. For 140 years, its courtrooms have heard the sometimes grisly evidence of violent assaults, rapes and deaths three hours west of Sydney. The early settlers and convicts of the district followed much the same ritual as a procession of witnesses who had come to give evidence about themselves and Janine Vaughan over a couple of weeks in 2009.
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Speaker 6I'm Hugh Whitfeld. Today, the coroner heard a second woman was stalked by a man driving a small red car just minutes before Janine disappeared. It will be a tough week of hearings for the Vaughans. Janine's mother is facing terminal cancer.
Speaker 3At the front of the courthouse is the taxi rank where Trish Salt told me she had waited anxiously in early December 2001 for the pharmacist, Andrew Jones, to go away after she said he had persisted in offering Trish and the woman a drink. She and her friend arrived home in his small red car about 2am, five days before Janine disappeared. It's a claim Andrew Jones has strenuously denied. And just around the corner and down the road, the building which had a reputation as the town's drinking hole of last resort, the Stabin Tavern, more commonly known as the Dirty Tav, where Barry Cranston has claimed he saw the then Deputy Mayor of Bathurst and Detective Sergeant Brad Hosemans. With Janine shortly before she disappeared into an unidentified small red car. It's a claim discredited by CCTV footage and strenuously denied by Hosemans. Behind the courthouse, the picturesque Makati Park, a stunning array of gardens concealing its dark past as the old Bathurst Jail, where the public hanging of a convicted murderer went horrifyingly awry in 1872 with the unexpected severing by the noose of the police. A bungled execution just metres from where Janine jauntily crossed the corner of the park from George Street to Keppel Street about 10 to 4 on the morning of December 7, 2001. And if you walk farther down Keppel Street, you'll get to the spot where the third person of interest, Dennis Briggs, had claimed he picked up Janine in his small red car shortly before raping and murdering her and burying her body at a place called White Rock. Or putting it down a well, it depends on which story he was telling. And they're stories he later strenuously denied, insisting they were his own delusions of murder. The result of him drinking too much alcohol and not taking the anti-psychotic medication which controlled his bipolar mental illness.
Speaker 6Today, Janine was described as a party girl and very outgoing. Janine also used recreational drugs at least twice a week, was facing financial difficulties, a degree of depression and may have attempted suicide at least once.
Speaker 7We just want answers. We just want to know what happened. It's very tough and it's important to my mum that she can go to rest knowing what happened to Janine.
Speaker 3A few hours away near the town of Musselbrook, another mum, Janine's biological mother, stayed out of the limelight. You heard from the woman we're calling Anna in the first episode of The Night Driver. Have you followed the police investigation?
Speaker 8Could. They promised me they would be in touch, you know, with any detail or any little thing that they found out. No, I've never heard one word from the police. Not one word. Because I told them I was interested and I would like to know. Oh, yeah, that's no problem. We'll be in touch. But I've never heard one word from them. That was when I went and done the DNA test. They told me that. How did you feel about giving your DNA to try to match with something they might find? The police or anything, what was going on or anything like that. But anyway, I tried to help where I could. I just kept thinking maybe people are blaming me for it. You know, if her life was different, that probably would never would have happened. And all those things are in your mind all the time. Gossip, you know, it goes along the gossip line. And then a couple who I thought were my friends just stopped talking to me all together. And I think one never spoke to me for after 10 years. And all she come and said was, I'm sorry. Put her arms around me and started crying and that was it. And I said, well, why? You know, I said, I know people talk. You only got to be out places and people are talking. You know they're talking.
Speaker 3As foreshadowed in the previous episode, this one is going to revolve around interviews with more witnesses. There'll be a reconstruction of parts of the evidence at the inquest in 2009. The inquest involved almost a fortnight of hearings back then. We cannot do the evidence and the witnesses justice in one episode. So we're going to tell it across this one and another next week. And then after some further investigations into Fresh Leeds, we're going to come back after several weeks with what we anticipate will be a concluding episode. Until the inquest in 2009, Janine was not legally dead. A finding about whether or not she was deceased would be a matter for the coroner, Mary Jerram, after hearing all the evidence. Mary Jerram also had the power under the legislation to determine whether a known person, someone among the three key persons of interest, or perhaps another unnamed suspect exposed during the hearings in the Bathurst courtroom, had possibly killed Janine. But long before hearings got underway, everybody knew that Janine was never coming back. Do you know when you formed a view that Janine was dead?
Speaker 8Probably as the weeks went by and they didn't have much evidence. And things like that, you sort of know in your own mind something terrible has happened. Have you had any theories about that? No, I haven't actually. No. There's some terrible, terrible people out there in that world.
Speaker 9She started her life as a high school English teacher. She studied law and then in May 2007, she became the state coroner of New South Wales. So it is my pleasure to welcome Mary Jerram, to the studio.
Speaker 10Welcome, Mary. In Western society, we accept that the state bears the responsibility for investigating and punishing wrongdoing and that vengeance itself is socially unacceptable. And yet daily in the media, we read and hear the cries of those who've lost somebody to murder, suicide or a horrible death. There's no hope without justice. Justice has to be done.
Speaker 3That's Mary Jerram in a TED talk on her retirement. She's reflecting on crime and the understandable determination of those left behind. People like Kylie, Adam, Rod and their father Ian for the guilty to be identified and punished.
Speaker 10What is justice for the bereaved? The thing that I came to see was and believe was that many people, when they talk about justice, actually are seeking revenge. In the hearts of all, maybe, but certainly many, do we really mean by justice an eye for an eye or capital punishment? I fear that that may often be the case.
Speaker 3In 2009, Janine Vaughan had been missing for eight years and the then state coroner, Mary Jerram, presided over an inquest to try to find out what was going on. She tried to discover new evidence. After hearing from more than 20 witnesses, Magistrate Jerram would need to determine whether Janine had been murdered and her body concealed from searches since 2001 or whether she was alive and living incognito somewhere. This was an extremely unlikely possible finding. Importantly for Janine's family, who were certain that she had been abducted when she stepped into the red car and killed soon afterwards, the inquest presented a chance to point out point the finger at a suspect or person of interest. in the multifaceted police investigation. As a very experienced magistrate, Mary Jerram understood justice well. By the time the inquest had started, she also had first-hand experience of vengeance after a much-loved niece froze to death while climbing in France.
Speaker 10She was in her 20s, lovely, clever, an absolute darling, and that's not just speaking well of the dead. The whole family was utterly devastated, of course. And for a little while at least, we all wanted to blame somebody. Was it the expedition leader's fault? Was it the rescue police who didn't get there quickly enough? Was it her boyfriend who was supposed to be in charge of the GPS? And I remember the black rage in my own gut at the waist of her and wanting to blame. As if that might make you feel better. But what that did do, I suppose the one good thing that came out of it, for me, was that it taught me to empathise at least with the bereaved who came to coronial courts wanting something to be done for their loved one.
Speaker 3The inquest started on the first Tuesday in June 2009 with a flourish of formality. The introductions of the lawyers who would be involved and an acknowledgement that three volumes of documents comprising the brief of evidence from investigating police would guide the proceedings. We've obtained this brief of evidence and studied all of the documents. It's a remarkable trove. Multiple leads, most of which lead to nothing, but some which appeared compelling. For the duration of the inquest, Coroner Mary Jerram was helped by a senior lawyer, Chris Ronalds, and Ms Ronalds disclosed at the start of the first public hearing that there were, there were three persons of interest who would be relevant in the inquest. The three were the pharmacist, Andrew Jones, the confessor, Dennis Briggs, and the sacked cop, Brad Hosemans. The lawyer, Chris Ronalds, also confirmed there had been a number of other persons of interest and they were subjected to what she described as varying degrees of intensity of investigation. But it was not in the public interest for those individuals to be named. As Ms Ronalds said, they have, quote, shown to have no connection or possible connection with the disappearance of Janine Vaughan, end quote. It was clear then that after eight years of investigation, it had come down to just three people deemed to be potential suspects, Jones, Briggs and Hosemans, and each would be called to give evidence. Coroner Mary Jerram had decided that when darkness fell on the shortest day of the year and one of the coldest in Bathurst, she and several key workers, key witnesses, would walk in the footsteps of Janine Vaughan from the dirty tab around the corner and into a small red car. In reconstructing this evidence, you're going to hear the words of Coroner Jerram, lawyers and the witnesses, but you won't hear their voices.
Speaker 11All right, this is an inquest into the disappearance and possible death of Janine Mary Vaughan, who, as all of you will know, was last seen in the early hours of 7 December 2001 here in Bathurst getting into a car.
Speaker 3The coroner, Mary Jerram, spoke with authority and compassion to a crowded courtroom.
Speaker 11She was never seen again despite enormous investigations and work on behalf of the police. We're not here to find guilt. We're not here to put blame. What we try to do is find what happened and if it is possible, and it may not be, to see if we can cast any more light on what happened to Janine Vaughan so long ago. I'm sure even though it's so long ago, her disappearance still lives with her family every minute of the day and I can't imagine anything worse for families than that.
Speaker 3Chris Ronald started laying out the background to the relevant evidence, a precursor to questioning the witnesses for the coroner.
Speaker 12Your Honour, in these days of modern and instant communication, knowledge and information, it's difficult to come to terms with something that has been known to occur for many centuries, the unexplained disappearance of a woman. A woman from within a community. A woman who was healthy and a productive member of the local community. A woman with no reason to run away or in any way cause her own disappearance and yet this is what happened to Janine Vaughan. On 7 December 2001, watched by three friends from two separate locations, she stepped into a car, apparently willingly, and vanished. She's never been heard from since and sadly her body has never been found. So, who was Janine Vaughan? She was an outgoing and attractive woman with a vibrant and energetic personality. She had a wide range of friends. She was not in a relationship at the time of her disappearance and a jilted lover does not appear to be a feasible explanation for her disappearance.
Speaker 3The lawyer described Janine's childhood, work and financial position and then she started on a chronology of the last night she was seen alive and the closed circuit TV footage showing her walking across George Street in an agitated state, having mislaid her handbag. How Janine's friend, Ian Bryant, Strop, watching from the first floor of the Park Hotel, saw her get into a red car which had briefly pulled up.
Speaker 12Many thousands of police hours have gone into trying to identify the car or locate the driver. The search for the small red car is well known in the Bathurst community. If the driver of the red car had an innocuous explanation such as I dropped Janine at the Ox or I took her to her house or to mine, then there have been many opportunities since 7 December 2001 to come forward and tell someone. In the absence of any blameless explanation, it must be assumed that the driver of the small red car was involved in her disappearance in some way. Or knows who was involved and what happened.
Speaker 3Importantly, Chris Ronalds provided further detail about the three persons of interest, Andrew Jones, Dennis Briggs and Brad Hosemans, and she recapped how the inquiry of the Police Integrity Commission had held public hearings between June and November 2006, with a particular focus on the role of Hosemans in the initial investigation, how he was investigated by fellow police after the police commissioner had received an anonymous letter. It became clear that the coronial inquiry was delayed by three years. It was meant to start in 2006 and a brief of evidence had been provided to the coroner in January of that year. But it was put on the back burner to make way for the commission's inquiry and the evidence of RA1, the troubled woman who said that she saw Hosemans driving a small red car with Janine in the front seat. Here is how it happened. Here is how Chris Ronalds described part of its findings.
Speaker 12Of critical importance, the commission in its executive summary concluded that there is no reliable evidence linking Hosemans to the disappearance of Ms Vaughan.
Speaker 3She made this point.
Speaker 12Why then is he being called? He is being called for reasons of transparency and accountability. There are many people in the Bathurst community who are convinced that Mr Hosemans was involved in the disappearance of Ms Vaughan. Mr Hosemans was a man who was a man of his word. rumours and innuendo being spread for many years, there is no credible evidence to support these views. We do not anticipate any new material will be uncovered during the course of this inquiry, but we remain at all times open to receiving it.
Speaker 3As for Dennis Briggs, he was there because of his admissions in conversations he had with at least three people, where he gave graphic details of a crime and the disposal of Janine's body. Briggs knew Janine from having shopped at the Ed Harry store and others said he was infatuated with her. He drove a red Hyundai XL.
Speaker 12This car has been forensically examined and no relevant material identified. Despite these possible lengths and his own admissions, even though denied later, there is no credible evidence of his abduction and murder of Ms Vaughan. The reason that a person would claim to have committed a terrible crime, which they did not do, is beyond the parameters of this inquiry.
Speaker 3When Chris Ronalds described the third person of interest, Andrew Jones, there was a subtle shift in gears. She described how the pharmacist Jones certainly knew Janine because he had bought clothing at her store near the pharmacy in which he worked. And at the time, he drove a small red Renault 19 Series car. Its number plate was similar to that recalled by Lynette Borland. Whereas she came up with this combination of letters, I-C-U-8-3. The actual number plate for Jones' car was T-C-V-8-3-6. And when you write them down, the similarities are striking. There are three letters and three numbers in the number plate on Jones's Renault 19. Lynette Borland offered only two numbers. Both were correct. She offered three letters. C and U with only one correct the letter C. She was wrong with the letters I and the letter U but they're not very dissimilar to the letters T and V particularly when Lynette Ballin was recalling something glimpsed in the dark and rain at a time of great stress. Here's Chris Ronalds again.
Speaker 12Mr Jones has previously denied any involvement in the disappearance of Miss Vaughan and has declined to be further interviewed.
Speaker 3When it came to Hosemans and Briggs the senior lawyer who was effectively driving the investigative program for the coroner made it plain there was no credible evidence linking either to the murder of Janine but Chris Ronalds said no such thing about Andrew Jones. As one of the last people to see Janine alive her friend Jordan Morris was one of the first witnesses to give evidence.
Speaker 12And did she talk to you generally? About what her hopes were in terms of a relationship and wanting to settle down?
Speaker 3On the night she disappeared Janine had opened up to Jordan about the sadness in her life at that time. She was upset because a friend whom she trusted had stolen from the store. Janine had her own financial problems trying to repay her home loan and meeting other commitments. She was spending money going out a lot. Jordan said that Janine told him that night how she had taken an overdose of pills the previous week. In his evidence he said she had tried to hurt herself. It was a less confronting way to describe an apparent attempted suicide. Janine had said to him, I can't believe I've done this to you. I hope you don't think any less of me. Jordan also recounted the final few minutes he spent with Janine as they walked with Jordan's girlfriend Juanita on the road outside the pub.
Speaker 13When the door opened I yelled out to Janine, just stop. You know, where are you going? Ran forward to try and see where she was going or who she was with but the car quickly took off down the street.
Speaker 3The coroner Mary Jerram could see Jordan was getting distressed. As his evidence ended she offered words of comfort.
Speaker 11You have a tough time, I know. It's upset you badly, you lost a friend and it's been awful for you. I understand that. Now I think we're going to hear from your wife as well. Stay in, won't you? Because she probably needs your support.
Speaker 3Juanita Murphy and Jordan Morris were wed a little over a year after Janine's disappearance. The tragedy had brought them together but no closer to the truth of what happened in the minutes after they last saw Janine. Juanita would talk to Janine regularly. They'd be in each other's company with Jordan a few times a week and sometimes on weekends.
Speaker 12And in terms of general conversations with Janine, did she ever speak to you about Brad Hoseman's? Yes. And do you recall what she said?
Speaker 5She just asked me if I knew him or knew of him and yes, said basically that he had been stalking her. Stalking her? That she felt there was something weird about him and asked me in my opinion and how much I knew of
Speaker 3him. The woman Janine called mum, Jenny Vaughan, was sworn in and she was immediately asked about a particular conversation Janine had with her during a visit home to Musselbrook.
Speaker 14Well, when she came home she was really excited about this man. This drop-dead, gorgeous guy, as she referred to him, having an interest in her. And she said that he was a detective of police and she said he was a deputy mayor. And she said, but I've also heard that he's in trouble for something but I don't know what it is yet. And she gave me his name as Bradley Hoseman's. It was
Speaker 3the only conversation Jenny Vaughan said she had with Janine about Brad Hoseman's. Here's the lawyer Chris Ronalds again.
Speaker 12Now you yourself had a lot of conversations with Mr Hoseman's. Is that correct? Yes, I did. And that was part of the investigation?
Speaker 14Yes. And did he ever tell you that he'd known Janine or? He told me that he didn't know Janine. I asked, I said, but you know my daughter? And he said, no, I don't. I've never met her.
Speaker 3The detective sergeant Hoseman's became Jenny Vaughan's police contact after Janine's disappearance for a while, until Janine's father, Ian, asked for him to be removed from the case. Jenny was troubled by something. Janine's friends, some of whom she described as probably the wrong sort of friends. In Bathurst, these friends were years younger than Janine, and it struck Jenny as unusual.
Speaker 14I mean, they were good friends. We met a lot of her friends, but they were so young compared to her, and I don't know why. She probably wanted to stay young like most of us.
Speaker 3One of the perplexing features of this case from the start has revolved around the presence of police in Janine's circle. On the night she disappeared, six police, who had been on a breath analysis course at the Bathurst Golf Club, met afterwards for dinner, then drinks at the Ox. Andrew Holland was a senior constable, and he recalled liking what he saw in the pub late that night.
Speaker 15I looked across. I thought she was very attractive. Single. She walked to the bar. I walked to the bar at the same time. We had a conversation at the bar. I think sometime later we did have a dance. It might have been two or three songs.
Speaker 3Sometime later, he and a few of the police who were still drinking left the Ox and crossed the park. They went to the Dirty Tav. Janine went there from the Ox too, and Officer Holland recalled that he left a short time later.
Speaker 12And as far as you recall, she was still there?
Speaker 15Yes, she was.
Speaker 12And when you worked at the Bathurst Police Station, you knew Brad Hosemans?
Speaker 15Yes, I did. I was a friend for an extended period of time, played golf with him, had been away on trips with him.
Speaker 12And did you know Brad Hosemans? Yes, I did. Did you see him during the course of the evening?
Speaker 15No, I did not.
Speaker 12And you have no information about Miss Vaughan's disappearance? No, I do not. And you didn't have any involvement in her disappearance? No, I did not.
Speaker 3When the outspoken taxi driver, Barry Cranston, was called to give his evidence, he was shown the grainy footage from the night, and it showed Janine and a man outside the Metro Tavern. The man was obviously not Brad Hosemans. For years, Brad Hosemans had been insistent that he saw the police officer with Janine in that place at that time. But the footage showed otherwise.
Speaker 12And certainly, we've looked at the video on a number of occasions, and Mr Hosemans hasn't been cited.
Speaker 16On that night, as I said, I know what was going on in Janine's life, and I was more worried about her than the other people that were there.
Speaker 12And what do you mean by you knew what was going on in her life?
Speaker 16She was being annoyed by a certain police officer,
Speaker 12Brad Hosemans. And how did you know that?
Speaker 16She had told me, and several of her friends had told me. And what did she tell you exactly? That he was harassing her, he wouldn't leave her alone, he was following her around into the pubs that she went to, he would go to her work, just stare through at work, stand outside her work, and just stare at her. I just said that I could go and see him and ask him to leave her alone, and she just said,
Speaker 3no, don't. Barry Cranston remained adamant that he saw Brad Hosemans with Janine the night she disappeared.
Speaker 16You could ask me in another 10 years' time, and I would still think it was him, yes.
Speaker 3He became angry during the questioning. He said police had altered statements, and he said they put in things which he never said, even though he had signed each page of the statements. In late 2017, when I started pursuing Chris Dawson for the 1982 murder of his wife, Lynn, Harvey Norman has been a loyal backer. It began with The Teacher's Pet, and Harvey Norman and its CEO, Katie Page's, support has continued for over eight years. I'm proud to have had their backing on all of mine and the Australians' investigative podcasts, The Night Driver, Shandy's Story, Shandy's Legacy, The Teacher's Trial, The Teacher's Accuser, Bronwyn, and most recently, the Sick to Death podcast. For more information on this podcast, go to theaustralian.com.au. Earlier in this episode, you heard the TV journalist Hugh Whitfeld in a news report of the inquest of 2009, and he spoke of some evidence heard in the Bathurst Courthouse that day about Janine's sadness and her dabbling in drugs. Everyone usually refers to Janine Mary Vaughan as bubbly and outgoing, because that was her natural disposition in Ed Harry's menswear store when she was out with friends and when she went home to family. In Musselbrook, we've also talked about an underlying sadness, something her friends and family attributed in part to the lack of any relationship with her biological mother, Anna. In the months before she disappeared, Janine was experiencing longer bouts of sadness and anxiety. She wanted to settle down. Janine wanted a home filled with the laughter of children, her own children. For this, she needed a loving, steady partner. But instead, she was 31, with no savings, a challenging mortgage for that. house she had bought in Rocket Street, and mounting bills. Janine had borrowed $500 from her father Ian to pay out the boyfriend who had drawn her to Bathurst, Phil Evans, for furniture when they split up. Her partners were young, younger than her, sometimes students from the Charles Sturt University. This meant Janine was going out a lot. The move away from close family and friends in Musselbrook to be with Phil Evans in Bathurst did seem right in the beginning, but at times it had been a real struggle since their relationship faltered. Here's Kylie telling me what she was seeing. And I think you were a bit disappointed when you visited her.
Speaker 7Yeah, I was a bit shocked, I think, to see the group of people that she was sort of associated with, because, you know, she's my big sister, and here I am looking up to her, and I get over there, and with all these uni students. And partying until four o'clock in the morning. And she was hanging out with people younger than you. Yep, that's right. And that hadn't happened before? No, no, not at all. She had her close friends that she was with Musselbrook, and they were all around the same age. They all had stuff in common. Janine had nothing in common with any of these people, apart from alcohol and going out. Like when you see them with her, she just didn't fit.
Speaker 3Her younger friends among the uni students favoured the party drug, ecstasy. And Janine used this too, from time to time. What do you think was going on?
Speaker 7I know that there was party drugs, marijuana. I remember finding, you know, we walked into one of these pubs, and I don't know whether someone had walked in front of us, one of her friends, and a bloody pill packet had fell out of their pocket or something. And I'd never seen anything like that before. So I sort of picked up this little satchel and. So did Janine want this? And that was when I realised that, yeah, I totally was oblivious to what was going on and. Do you think it was ecstasy? Yeah, I think it was some sort of party, yeah, little white tablets they were in a little satchel. I mean, they didn't take them off me and chuck them in the bin. I would never try anything like that because I'm a control freak. I need to be in control, I think. And that was one thing I couldn't understand, you know, like, you know, she wanted to settle down, have the children, but then she's gone totally opposite. She's gone on that party bender and hanging around with uni student. I was disappointed because I had this vision of her. And then all of a sudden, you know, I get over there and I wasn't liking what I was seeing, I suppose. But I would never have said that to her.
Speaker 3Rebecca Howell had been counselling, her friend, trying to steady her shortly before she disappeared.
Speaker 17Janine was the party girl. She liked to drink and she dabbled in recreational drugs.
Speaker 18And were you a bit concerned about Janine's partying and socialising?
Speaker 17Definitely. Definitely. I had been working with her in the lead up to Paris's birth. She had been behind on the mortgage repayments. We'd been having conversations over at her house, actually, that she needed to settle in. And I was like, I'm not going to do that. I'm not going to do that. She needed to stop going out so much and partying and drinking, and that she should get back into some drawing and some painting, which she liked to do.
Speaker 3One of Janine's younger friends, Felicity, who worked in the menswear store, expressed similar concerns.
Speaker 4And she was saying, oh, you know, I'm not in a good place at the moment. And I said, well, do you need to go and talk to someone? She said, oh, I'm just trying to get myself through it. And I went, okay. Rebecca Howell In the months leading up to that, it had dropped into conversation that she'd been out with this one or that one, and that they'd been taking pills. I've never been one to get into the drugs, the party drugs, where I would have thought a newer thing.
Speaker 3I asked her brother Adam about this, and the apparent attempt by Janine to take her own life.
Speaker 19I was there in her presence and his presence, and I knew that they were taking drugs when I was there in Bathurst. So I know that it was happening. And if she had previously bought marijuana or ecstasy pills from a dealer who drove a red car, she would recognise that car. Yep. They all had took the drugs together. They didn't really know us, but they knew of us, and they knew how much Janine loved us. Why didn't they contact either me or one of them and say, look, Janine's really that down. She's attempted to take her own life. Like, I know it's a different time now, but she was a beautiful, bright, bubbly girl. Clearly, if she was that desperate to tell someone, it's a cry for help.
Speaker 3My friend, the retired judge, Peter Murphy, and I have been looking at the possibility that the night driver was a man who sold drugs to students and to Janine. She was emotionally fragile right around the time she disappeared.
Speaker 20This is someone who is familiar with using recreational drugs to feel better. And hey, significant proportion of the population do, by all reports. And certainly very significant proportion of the population use legal drugs to do so. So if you've had a few drinks, and there's a suggestion from one or two people that she might have taken some ecstasy that night or something similar. If that's your emotional framework, as it were, at the time, and it's raining, and you're wet, you've lost your purse, your phone, your car keys, your credit card. And it's someone who you've bought drugs from in the past. Who pulls up in their car. Might you at least get into the car, not to necessarily go with them to anywhere else, but simply to go with them far enough to obtain some drugs. Because at four o'clock in the morning, with all of those other factors impinging upon you, wouldn't that be the time that you want to go home and have a joint or whatever it might be?
Speaker 3It is a speculative theory, like so many in this case, but let's run it out. Janine recognises the small red car of a man she's known to distribute drugs. She would not have hesitated to get in his car because that would be a normal thing to do, to avoid being spotted.
Speaker 20Now, look, we're drawing some long bows here, but I just think the connection is interesting. Okay. Well, it's an interesting theory, but Lynette Borland, when she was
Speaker 3walking on the street shortly before Janine was picked up, she was approached by a man in a red car. There's no suggestion from Lynette that she was being offered drugs. She was concerned that this person wanted to abduct her and she ran in fright and hid.
Speaker 20And we believe that the same driver of the red car is the one who's approached Janine. So does that affect the theory? The thing to do is to underscore the fact that it is no more than a theory. It's just that, and a pretty tenuous one at that, really, until we get better evidence. But the two incidents are distinct and may, very distinct, and may very well be distinguished by that person not being Borland's dealer. Let's say it's a drug dealer. And they're not mutually exclusive, aren't they? I mean, you can be both drug dealer and abductor. Of course. I mean, what's to say that Janine gets. She gets into a car with someone she knows who's her drug dealer, or one of her drug dealers. Just what I need right now at four o'clock in the morning, you know, perfect. A joint or a pill or whatever. But this bloke's got something else on his mind. So he says, let's go down the road, get away from people if we're going to do this. And suddenly it turns very ugly. He decides that she's a target, you know, a sexual target. And she says, no, no, hang on. That's not the deal. The deal is. To be clear, we are not talking about
Speaker 3a student of the university from that period.
Speaker 17I don't believe any of them would have hurt Janine. They all loved Janine. Some of them would go out of their way to help Janine. They would go to her house and do things for her.
Speaker 3But Peter Murphy and I have been looking at someone. We're spending some more time investigating before we return with what we anticipate will be a. It will be a concluding episode of The Night Driver.
Speaker 17I do agree with Kylie. And Kylie has always said that she believes Bathurst is keeping secrets.
Speaker 3Day after day, the inquest was a very public exhibition of a well-oiled inquiry. Behind the scenes, police strike force Mountbatten had been carefully reinvestigating the murder case since soon after the Police Integrity Commission began its probe a few years earlier. The officers of Mountbatten. re-interviewed witnesses and deployed a range of covert investigative techniques. They spent months in Bathurst and surrounding areas. For obvious reasons, they did not disclose their methodology.
Speaker 6Detective Superintendent Peter Houlihan has been working on the Janine Vaughan case for more than two years. The previous investigation ended in allegations of corruption. He concedes witnesses are tainted and too many rumours have gone through Bathurst about what happened to the 31-year-old.
Speaker 3But the coroner, Mary Jerram, clearly appreciated the investigative muscle and the new evidence delivered by strike force Mountbatten. Its work exposed some significant flaws in the original police probe into Janine's case. disappearance. Strike Force Mountbatten's Detective Superintendent Peter Houlihan and several other officers gave important evidence at the inquest. Houlihan wanted to understand whether Janine was
Speaker 21suicidal. Even if the events of the morning of 7 December 2001 became so overwhelming that Janine made a decision to take her life, it is highly unlikely that at that time she would have had the composure and logistical planning to accomplish this in such a way that her body would never be found. Again, when one looks at Janine's apparent propensity to seek attention and dramatize situations, it is unlikely that she would not have left some form of communication setting out her feelings leading to the decision for the benefit of her loved ones. I am of the opinion that Janine Vaughan did not commit suicide on or about 7 December 2001. I am of the strong opinion based on the factors I have considered in respect to the possibility of suicide, together with the available evidence, that Janine Vaughan would not have orchestrated her own disappearance. Such was her relationship with her family that Janine would have found it impossible to remain estranged from her family for this period of time.
Speaker 3The seasoned detective made special mention of the local rumour mill.
Speaker 21The very close nature of the rural community provided some unique and major obstacles to investigators. The most significant of these obstacles was the rapid circulation of speculation and rumour throughout the community. This aspect was only exacerbated through the allegations of corruption and the subsequent involvement of the Police Integrity Commission. Initially, this led to a conspicuous air of distrust towards all police, including Strike Force Mountbatten, who, at the time, were a member of the Police Department, but the police were also a part of the police department. This led to a large amount of misdemeanour. This led to a large number of allegations of corruption and rumour about Janine Vaughan's death. The most significant of these allegations was that Janine Vaughan was the only person in the police department who was a member of the Police Department. This led to a large number of allegations of corruption and rumour about the death of her family members. The multiple interviewing of witnesses, whilst essential to seek out any unknown or missed
Speaker 3detail, unfortunately served to provide contradiction, contamination, and in some cases embellishment to some of the accounts. The investigation is the result of further investigations into the town's former deputy mayor and detective sergeant, who had by then relocated to Sydney.
Speaker 21At this point in time, despite the available accounts of an alleged association between Mr Hosemans and Janine Vaughan, together with his inability or reluctance to disclose his whereabouts in the early hours of 7 December 2001, the investigation has not been able to identify a link between Bradley Hosemans and Janine Vaughan. The investigation has not been able to identify a link between Bradley Hosemans and Janine Vaughan.
Speaker 3Strike Force Mountbatten's Detective Inspector Guy Flarty gave evidence about the drug's angle.
Speaker 22Your Honour would have heard that Janine was involved in recreational drug use back in 2001 and we have conducted a review as to who the drug dealers, suppliers and users were. However, there is no link or intelligence that we've been able to identify that Janine's disappearance has been in relation to a drug debt or some scenario like that. It's only surfaced as a scenario by investigators.
Speaker 3The former co-owner of the dirty tab Trevor Howie gave evidence which reinforced concerns about significant gaps in the original police investigation.
Speaker 6Trevor Howie was the then manager of the nightclub. He saw Janine at the club and handed police this CCTV vision but he claims it wasn't until more than 12 months later police took a formal statement. Barry Gale worked as a security guard at the Metro. A couple of months after Janine disappeared, he says there was a gentleman who was in the club talking about how he'd killed someone. He called police but claims they didn't want to know anything about it.
Speaker 3You'll recall that fellow co-owner Mal Pollard owned the Amuse Me Parlour, where Jessica Small spent time shortly before she was picked up and abducted by a night driver. Trevor ran the Metro on a day-to-day basis and he lived upstairs with his wife in a three-bedroom flat. He believed he had seen Janine Vaughan once or twice before the fateful night she went missing.
Speaker 23Were you the barman? A bit of everything, just making sure all the kegs were lined up, all the tills were right, making sure the staff are doing their job. I employed security. At the end of the night, I met Janine at the door because I was wanting everyone to leave, and she said she'd lost her handbag, so I helped her look for her handbag through the chairs, the cubicles.
Speaker 3As you heard in a previous episode, Howie did not find the handbag. He said he first saw it about lunchtime the next day after the cleaner had found it near the bottom of the stairs, then gave it to Juanita Murphy when she turned up and revealed Janine had gone missing. Another friend of Janine's who gave evidence was Mark Wright, and he was taken to a statement that he had made earlier. He said that they were on the dance floor and she'd said to him I've come back to take care of something that I should have acted on last week but Wright did not know what she was referring to. Nicole Nolan spoke of knowing of Brad Hoseman as the town's deputy mayor and local detective and then as someone who was friendly when he stopped in at Nicole's workplace at fashion fair near where Janine worked.
Speaker 24He asked me, did I know Janine? Was Janine single? What sort of girl was she? I told him she was a very bubbly person. She was a very nice girl and to my belief she was single.
Speaker 3Nicole said the detective and another officer were coming by regularly, perhaps twice a week, and they'd stop in for a friendly chat. Another lawyer assisting the coroner, Mr Chicken, took up the questioning. During those times when he came either with another person or on his own, was there a common topic of conversation?
Speaker 24He often asked about Janine. What had we been doing? Are we going out on the weekend? You know, general pleasantry conversation. Or he'd pass comments about, this girl looks nice today. He was a bit of a ladies man and didn't mind passing his comments. He said her name. How's your friend Janine? He had no holding back in saying her name. He was very interested in her. Did you ever speak to Janine about Brad Hoseman's? Yes, we went and told her he'd approached us pretty well in the first instance. We both told her after work. She was polite, I would assume, to him, but there was no, she didn't want to go out with him.
Speaker 3Nicole recounted another occasion when she was out with her own boyfriend and Brad Hoseman saw her and he asked her if Janine Vaughan was still single.
Speaker 24Yes, she is, I said. Have you done anything about it? He said, I'm too shy. I laughed in his face and said, oh, come on, Brad, because he was a ladies' man.
Speaker 3When Janine received flowers one day, it became a subject of gossip. Nicole and her friends believed the flowers had come from Brad Hoseman's, but they couldn't know for sure.
Speaker 24I'm sure she told her mother he was drop-dead gorgeous because he was drop-dead gorgeous in his suit.
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Speaker 3baldened. I said to myself, this is not right, this is bad, get out of here, go. I ran as far as I could from that point. You'll recall from episode four the chilling account of a woman who cheated death. Lynette Borland shrank and then ran from a red car and its driver about 10 minutes before Janine was seen for the last time getting in a red car in steady rain on the other side of Makati Park. At the inquest in 2009, the TV news journalist Hugh Whitfeld noted something.
Speaker 6We can't show you her face but Lynette Borland looked not dissimilar to Janine Vaughan back in 2001.
Speaker 3I'm grateful to the Seven Network for sharing Hugh's reports of the inquest with this podcast series.
Speaker 6Today she told the inquest she was also pursued by a man in a small red car the night Janine went missing, describing him as a big fellow with dark hair and hairy arms. He was leaning over. He was talking to me. He said, excuse me, I want to talk to you. He sounded very authoritative. I thought he was a police officer or security guard.
Speaker 3Senior detectives who gave evidence at the inquest believed it was very unlikely that two drivers of red cars were trying to pick up women a few hundred metres apart at that ungodly hour in Bathurst.
Speaker 6The court heard when Ms Borland was hypnotised, she recalled seeing a dashboard mat with the letters HY then XL in the car that followed her. One of the persons of interest in Janine's disappearance, Dennis James Briggs, drove a red Hyundai XL in 2001. The counsel for another person of interest, Andrew Donald Grant-Jones, asked Ms Borland, is it possible you saw a mat that said Hyundai XL? It is possible. This car, it had a pink tinge, maybe some sort of special colour.
Speaker 312 months before she gave this evidence, detectives from Strike Force Mountbatten visited Lynette and they interviewed her again. Lynette had lived a hard life. She had struggled with drug addiction and she was on a methadone program in 2001. This is how one of the two detectives put it to Lynette in the interview in June 2008.
Speaker 25We're at the police station today to obtain a statement from Lynette regarding our inquiries into pharmacies and pharmacists in the Bathurst area in 2001. You should understand that the presentation of photos may not contain a person in the incident we're making inquiries for. Okay? Just for your knowledge. change. shows that Lynette
Speaker 3told the detective she used to ride her bicycle to the Bathurst Base Hospital and then wait her turn in a room until a woman and sometimes a medical or pharmaceutical student gave her the stipulated dose of methadone. She estimated that she was going there for about one year from June 2000. Andrew Jones had worked at that hospital too. Lynette picked up prescription medication for anxiety and for this she frequented the pharmacy in which Andrew Jones also worked. It made sense for detectives to see if Lynette could identify Andrew Jones. Okay now I'm going to show you some photos all right. But Lynette said she recognised no one during this interview seven years after she fled the night driver. When she was asked if she wanted to look at any of the photographs again she replied no.
Speaker 6An emotional Christine Symington leaves Bathurst coroner's court this morning. Inside she fought back tears as she told the coroner Janine Vaughan was sort of like our extra sister. They were best friends. Janine was very outgoing, personable, a kind person, fun-loving but in some ways she was at times a little too trusting of people.
Speaker 3Christine Symington had been Janine's best friend from when they were knee-high. They knew each other very well. They shared secrets and news they still visited each other when Janine moved away to Bathurst.
Speaker 12You understand that the last time she was seen was getting into a car? Yeah. Would she have gotten to a car with a stranger in your view? No. Even if it was raining and she'd had a few drinks and she's lost her bag?
Speaker 26No no no. I guess that's what in my heart of hearts I believe that whoever's done this to Janine is someone that she knows because I know she would never do that. She was the most kind, loving person you could ever be and her disappearance has changed my life dramatically. There's not a day that goes by where I don't miss her and I hope that one day we'll find out what happened to her.
Speaker 3Christine made posters to put up around town in the days after Janine disappeared. She went looking for her best friend along riverbanks and in drains. Like the witnesses who came before her, and after her, Christine recalled Janine raising Brad Hosemans and his apparent interest in her, trying to catch her eye while walking past the fashion store. After Janine's disappearance, Christine recalled speaking to one of the investigating officers.
Speaker 26I remember talking to him and I guess the thing in hindsight which is sad for me is that he reassured me that I didn't need to worry about Brad Hosemans, that he was a police officer and that it was fine. And that he wouldn't have been involved.
Speaker 3Days before her disappearance, Janine was being a supportive friend to Rebecca Howell.
Speaker 27She visited me, she had a nurse of the baby and we talked about her future plans, about her wanting to have children and to settle down and that she was getting on, that she was 31 and when was Mr Wright going to come along and that type of stuff. But she was in a good frame of mind.
Speaker 12And of the Janine you know, do you think she would have run away and not made contact?
Speaker 27No, not at all. She wouldn't have done that. She wouldn't have done that to Jenny. She wouldn't have done it to Ian and her sisters and her brothers. And she wouldn't have done it to me. There's no way that she would have done that. She wouldn't have missed the birth of her nieces and nephews. She wouldn't have missed Kylie and Adam's wedding. There's no way. And can you describe her to your honour? She was very outgoing and she was very friendly. She would do anything for anyone. Now of the Janine you knew, do you think she would have got into a car with a stranger? No, no. She wouldn't have got into a car with a stranger. I think that she could have got into the car with someone that maybe she didn't know as well as what she thought she did. It could have been a friend of a friend through a pub that she had met. A mate, you know. A mate's mate. It could have been someone that she may have served a couple of times in the shop and had a couple of conversations with. And then later seen out and had a drink with.
Speaker 3Dan Murphy had been working part time with Janine for a few months up to her disappearance. They met through a mutual friend, Shane Gibson. Here's the lawyer, Chris Ronalds.
Speaker 12Did Janine ever discuss Brad Hoseman's with you?
Speaker 28Only once when he walked past, she ducked around the corner into the tea room. Just sort of hiding from him. Not a big drama. I think she mentioned once that she'd seen him when she was out having drinks. But I never heard that they were out on a date or went for drinks or anything like that.
Speaker 3He recalled the store diary and he said he didn't see any notes in it from Janine about Brad Hoseman's. I don't know if he didn't look at it closely or frequently, but when I interviewed Dan Murphy, he did say that he had seen notes in the diary made by Janine about Brad. It's another reminder of the unreliability of memory. There was disagreement among himself and other store staff about who gave it to the police or if indeed it was ever handed to the police. It's been missing since Janine's disappearance. Janine's former boyfriend was Phil Evans. Janine Evans had for a while employed Janine Vaughan in her sandwich shop. But Janine Evans was sceptical about the stalking incidents and you heard about some of the scepticism earlier in this series. On the one hand, Phil's sister Janine Evans was pressing police to investigate everything thoroughly. But on the other hand, and privately, she had suspected at least some of the incidents reported by Janine never happened. It was awkward when it came up at the inquest. Janine Evans told the police that she had been involved in the stalking incidents and that she had not been involved in any of the incidents reported by Janine.
Speaker 29Sometimes I found her needy and we'd help her. I used to leave the shop on a routine basis each day and when I'd return, she'd be upset that she'd received a telephone call from a male and they were harassing calls. On a couple of occasions, Janine would have letters, handwritten letters, left on her vehicle at her parking spot. Well, it was disturbing because it'd be upsetting to Janine and she obviously felt in some way threatened. Violated. Very scared.
Speaker 3The lawyer, Mr Chicken, asked how would Janine have reacted if she were being forcibly abducted?
Speaker 29She would have been hysterical. She would have put up a fight. She would have been noisy to an extent where, you know, people would have heard a commotion and I believe she would have done anything not to get in the car or definitely to get out of the car.
Speaker 3The evidence of one of Janine's former managers, Graham Burey, would have been something else. Witness memory is sometimes unreliable. As a witness in the inquest in late June 2009, Graham testified that he knew of Brad Hoseman's because of Janine's conversations with Graham Burey about the police officer. But three years earlier, in an interview with an officer from the Police Integrity Commission, he said that Janine didn't actually reveal any names. It was another example of evidence which had shifted over time against the former cop. When the discrepancy was pointed out to Graham, he conceded he would not have known of Brad Hoseman's from Janine in 2001. Rachel Green entered the witness box briefly too. She had worked with Nicole Nolan.
Speaker 6Rachel Green worked at a store opposite Janine's. She said Mr Hoseman's came into her shop one day asking about Janine. It was a general question about whether Janine was in a relationship at the time or not. He found her quite attractive.
Speaker 3And Rachel then passed that information to Janine, who looked a little embarrassed or overwhelmed that someone was showing interest in her. Felicity Pennells worked with Janine and she recalled being telephoned by Brad Hoseman's on Christmas Eve. The cop wanted Felicity to come in and give a statement on December 27. Now, when you were phoned by Detective Hoseman's, did that name mean anything to you at the time?
Speaker 30He was obviously the head detective in the area. He was the deputy. He was the deputy mayor at the time and I had discussed, or Janine had discussed him with me. Basically, she told me that he had asked her out. She didn't make out that it was a big thing. She didn't give me any details or where or when or in what manner that it happened. And she said, look, his reputation preceding him, given what had happened with the incident at the Bathurst Golf Club. She said, I'm not really sure that I would really be interested in that. And I said, well, I don't blame you. But I said, I, you know, I don't know. I have also heard from other people that that was all a bit of a beat up. And, you know, in Bathurst, it's all poppy syndrome.
Speaker 3But when Felicity was interviewed by police three weeks after Janine's disappearance, she didn't mention Brad Hoseman's. When she gave her evidence in the inquest in 2009, she tried to explain why she had omitted him.
Speaker 30At the time, you know, she'd made a half comment, throwaway sort of thing about possibly Brad Hoseman's having asked her out. At that stage, she hadn't seemed, seemed to come into the limelight at all. And I guess I just didn't really stop to give it a whole lot of thought.
Speaker 31A dark, wet night. And unfortunately, the area of interest is right at the very top of the frame. It's 125 metres away from the camera.
Speaker 3Photogrammetry is the science of calculating measurements from photographs, from thousands of pixels and sub-pixels. It's a niche specialty. When he gave evidence at the inquest in 2000, 2009, Professor John Fryer was one of three people to have become a professor of photogrammetry at the University of New York. at an Australian university. He told me that detectives from Strike Force Mountbatten went to him because they had seen something in the grainy black and white CCTV footage from the dirty TAV, something the previous Strike Force Toko detectives had missed or dismissed. In the footage, there's the almost obscure and brief outline of a car on Keppel Street. It was almost certainly the red car Janine got into. Professor Fryer was asked to try to glean potentially vital evidence about that car.
Speaker 31A naked eye looking at the imagery on the screen, you almost don't see what's the key area. You buy a mobile phone these days and you might have a 15 megapixel to 20 megapixel camera in it. That camera was a quarter of a megapixel. So the ones you buy these days are 60 to 80 times better. And you're a mobile phone than they had in their surveillance camera. And that wasn't a new camera in 2001. It was an old one then. And unfortunately, in those days, it wasn't digitally recorded directly onto a hard drive or something. This is, we're talking videotape.
Speaker 3Professor Fryer had come up with a unique way to combine low-resolution photographs to make a high-res image.
Speaker 31If you take a lot of coarse images, and I've used the word add them together to make it sound simple, you may come up with an image of a higher definition. If you grab those together in a mathematical way, you could come up with a finer resolution.
Speaker 18When you first saw the footage, were you pessimistic or optimistic about the prospects for getting some viable data?
Speaker 31I would have to be a supreme optimist to be optimistic about that because the footage is very, very poor. And it's low resolution.
Speaker 3He persevered with a lot of mathematics and a PhD student to enhance every pixel from the Dirty Tav's footage. They went to Bathurst to do detailed surveys of the streetscape, and he climbed a ladder to examine the location of the Dirty Tav's original CCTV camera. The camera was long gone, but the fitting was still there.
Speaker 31And lo and behold, out came an image of a motor vehicle, and I guess no one was more surprised or happy than we were that we got something out of attempting it. And it's not a straightforward, simple process.
Speaker 3He made precise measurements of distances and angles. He studied the footage numerous times. Because of the tilt of the CCTV camera, the footage showed only a general outline of the red car, but missing the roof. This was frustrating as it meant he could not determine the full height of the car.
Speaker 31So the one thing that I could see were the wheels, and therefore it could work on the wheelbase. So it's basically the distance between the axles.
Speaker 3It's the centre of the front wheel hubcap to the centre of the back wheel hubcap on the same side.
Speaker 31Yes. So I'm quite confident that the answers I got were right.
Speaker 3It was a laborious process, taking the footage from a DVD provided by police, which itself had come from an old videotape, reducing it to still images, and subjecting each of those to forensic scrutiny to come up with reliable dimensions. Professor Fryer grew more positive by accurately calculating the wheelbase of another vehicle in the footage from that night. It was a Honda Accord, and Professor Fryer determined that it would have had, a wheelbase of 2.6 metres. He was out by just 30 millimetres. By testing his program and the mathematical calculations on a police vehicle, calculating its wheelbase and then checking it against the car manufacturer's specifications, Professor Fryer became increasingly confident with his methodology. The questioning of Professor Fryer by the lawyer for pharmacist Andrew Jones went on for some time. It was clear, that Jones and his lawyer Thomas Spohr were against acceptance of the findings of Professor Fryer as accurate. But the expert witness held his ground. He refused to concede any errors. The average length of an adult index finger is just a little more than 70 millimetres. And 70 millimetres, or 7 centimetres, was the wriggle room, or tolerance, which Professor Fryer had allowed for in his calculations. This was, complex evidence and it took some time to unpack. But the inquest and the police detectives deemed that it was important. After screw-ups in earlier investigations and then allegations of corruption in the Police Integrity Commission's hearings, this time, in the old Bathurst Courthouse, the detectives and the coroner Mary Jerram were leaving no stone unturned. Here's the news reporter Hugh Whitfeld with his evening report for the Seven Network at the time.
Speaker 6The coroner assured the Vaughans we're trying like mad to find out what happened to Janine.
Speaker 3The effect of the evidence of Professor Fryer was that the Renault 19 belonging to Andrew Jones and the Hyundai Excel driven by Dennis Briggs fell inside the parameters for the red car Janine got into. But of course it was impossible to determine which red car it was. It could have been any one of hundreds of other red cars. In the next episode of The Night Driver, part two of the inquest, and Janine's former boyfriend Phil Evans breaks his silence after years of remorse over his dismissal of the stalking incidents when they were together. I thought that she'd more been doing it for attention for me because it was every time I was going to work how wrong I was. My gut feeling is has that got something to do with it mate? The Night Driver is a podcast series investigated and written by me, Headley Thomas with assistance from Peter Murphy. Music and audio production is by Blacksmith & Co with additional audio support from Chris Bosley. This podcast series is brought to you by the Australian newspaper and digital site. Visit thenightdriver.com.au for additional documentary material as well as credits for the full team behind this multi-part production. Anyone with information about the disappearance of Janine Vaughan can contact me confidentially by email by going to thenightdriver.com.au You can search for the Night Driver podcast official discussion group on Facebook and join in with the exchange of ideas and information. This podcast is made possible by subscribers to The Australian. and our principal sponsor Harvey Norman. Harvey Norman has provided unwavering support for my investigative podcast since 2018. For more information on this podcast and on our entire investigative catalogue go to theaustralian.com.au
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