"We're done with Mr. Dunlop": Engelmann

Cornwall News AM 1220 

September 03, 2008 — Lead Commission Counsel Peter Engelmann doesn't see anything surprising by today's criminal contempt sentence for Perry Dunlop. The former city police officer will spend 30 days in an Ottawa prison for refusing a judge's order to testify at the Cornwall Public Inquiry. Engelmann tells AM 1220 News the Cornwall Public Inquiry won't pursue Dunlop anymore. (Hear audio clip below) Engelmann doesn't believe the final inquiry report into institutional response to allegations of child sex abuse will be any less without Dunlop's perspective. He says roughly 150 witnesses have shared their story with the inquiry.

[Transcript of audio clip:  We’re not going to re-summons him. We’re beyond that.  We moved on.  We will not have Mr. Dunlop’s perspective, ah, so we have to draw that from other means as best we can. ]

More Jail Time For Dunlop

Cornwall News AM 1220

September 03, 2008 — It will be 30 days in jail for Perry Dunlop. The former Cornwall police officer will spend another 30 days behind bars for refusing to testify at the Cornwall Public Inquiry. Dunlop was convicted of civil and criminal contempt for not providing testimony at the probe into institutional response to allegations of child sex abuse. The Crown had been looking for another three to six months in prison, while Dunlop, who was representing himself, wanted immediate release. Dunlop has just finished a six-month sentence for civil contempt for refusing to testify.

[Transcript of audio clip: …it is now an established way of doing things in the Catholic Church. There’s no diocese that will take on a priest in the diocese without being completely aware of that priest’s background; not anymore. I think that lesson has been learned seriously.]