Robert Clarke

Robert Clark and Christopher Drury were police officers and were convicted of taking property from drug dealers and recycling narcotics. The evidence against them came from Clark’s informant, Evelyn Fleckney who agreed to assist the police in relation to her corrupt activity with Clark, a police officer who had pled guilty to a number of offences and agreed to assist the complaints investigation branch, and the criminals whose property was stolen and their associates who had witnessed money or drugs being taken. On appeal, it was accepted that there had been substantial non-disclosure by the Crown. The court found that the convictions could not be found to be safe in light of the non-disclosure of evidence relevant to the credibility of the prosecution witnesses in the case.

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