Western Power stands down three employees for supporting rapist colleague
The decision to provide the letters, aimed at helping to reduce the man’s sentence, was labelled appalling, and a ‘terrible lapse in judgement’.
Three employees of Western Power have been stood down for supporting a colleague who is a rapist. The support took the form of letters written to help reduce the man's sentence. These letters were widely criticised as an "appalling" and "terrible lapse in judgement".
The criticism was reported by The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, which both used the same wording to describe the reaction to the letters.
There was no connection found between Western Power and the unrelated report on planned maintenance works by the Electricity Company of Ghana.
Brief written by urgent.news from The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, MyJoyOnline Ghana — 3 reports on this story. Machine-written — may contain errors; check the original before relying on it.
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