Entrenched belief is never altered by fact.    
Anon

In the afternoon of May 9, 1989, two men in an old Valiant panel van drove across the state border and into Western Australia. Secreted behind the interior side panels of the van was $50,000 worth of cannabis.

The men drove past Eucla, and on westward towards Perth. As fate would have it, two patrol officers from the Eucla police station saw them pass the next roadhouse, Mundrabilla.............

And so began the Eucla case.

This is the amazing story of five police officers who, unwittingly caught up in a vicious battle between opposing cadres in the Western Australian Police Service, were wrongfully accused and three convicted of crimes that did not exist.

Despite being the subject of three internal police investigations, six court cases, inquiries by the State Ombudsman, the Australian Federal Police and a Parliamentary Select Committee, the full truth, motives and conduct of theis matter have never been told.

They are not presented to you here.

What is described are the facts, taken from thousands of pages of court transcripts, statements, reports, letters and other material. In the first part of this book these facts and evidence show that there is not, and there never was, any evidence against the Eucla officers. It is the second section of this book which is not complete - why did this happen?

This book should be read by every police officer. It is a grim and chilling reminder of the internal workings of their profession. No-one is too straight, honest, junior or unimportant to be accused of misconduct, and no officer too innocent not to be swallowed by the system.