A FORMER police officer who supplied a copy of a convicted Mandurah murderer’s interview video to a female practitioner has unsuccessfully appealed his nine-month jail sentence.
Carl Salvatore Casilli’s reputation was in tatters after he pleaded guilty to supplying the young lawyer, who he was having an intimate relationship, killer Colin Peter Casey’s audiovisual recording.
At the time, Mr Casey was a key suspect in the 2010 murder of Mandurah grandmother Helen ‘Margaret’ Bromley who was bludgeoned to death.
Mr Casey, 52, had been an advocate against street violence before his crimes came to light.
According to the Supreme Court, sometime between September 2011 and April 2013 the lawyer came into possession of the video and under a notice to produce, handed over the copy she illegally possessed.
The lawyer was not acting for Mr Casey and it remains unclear why she had possession of the interview Mr Casilli conducted on September 2, 2011.
The court heard Mr Casilli, then a senior serving police officer, used the police computer system to access restricted information 15 times over a five-year period.
He pleaded guilty on June 30 to accessing the information, communicating interception warrant information and to supplying the lawyer with Mr Casey’s interview.
On July 15 Mr Casilli was sentenced to nine months in jail but immediately lodged an appeal and was granted bail pending his hearing.
In his decision Justice John McKechnie told the court Mr Casilli was warned on each occasion not to access the information but instead chose to be a repeat offender.
Mr Casilli’s appeal was dismissed.
