Corrupt judge Walter Sofronoff, who faces up to 6 months jail and owns a plane at Toowoomba airport, has gone into hiding

Shane Dowling

9 months ago

Walter Sofronoff has gone into hiding after illegally leaking the ACT Inquiry Report to Bruce Lehrmann’s favourite propagandist at News Corp’s The Australian Janet Albrechtsen and the ABC even before he handed the Report to the ACT government.

Walter Sofronoff owns a plane that is parked in a hangar at Toowoomba Airport which is Bruce Lehrmann’s hometown, he was personally phoning journalists and bagging whistleblower Shane Drumgold during the course of the ACT Inquiry and now he has gone into hiding and those are the 3 key issues we will look at in this article.

If you are new to this story in would be worth reading me previous article “Bruce Lehrmann outs himself as a serial rapist by failing to sue media over other alleged rape victims” as it has some background information. (Click here to read the article)

I emailed Walter Sofronoff the below questions on Sunday 6/8/23.

From: SHANE DOWLING
Sent: Sunday, August 6, 2023 10:45:08 AM
To: Walter Sofronoff <walter@sofronoff.com.au>
Subject: Media questions from Shane Dowling – Kangaroo Court of Australia

Dear Walter Sofronoff

I have a few questions for an article I am writing that has the working title “How much was corrupt judge Walter Sofronoff bribed to protect Bruce Lehrmann and the Liberal Party?

Why did you break the law by releasing the ACT Inquiry Report to News Corp’s Janet Albrechtsen and the ABC?
Were you aware when you leaked the ACT Report that it carries a 6-month jail sentence for leaking it as it is a criminal offence under section 17 of the ACT Inquiries Act 1991 “Nondisclosure of information by members etc”?
How much were you paid to give a copy of the ACT Report to Janet Albrechtsen?
Why did you give a copy of the ACT Report to Janet Albrechtsen when you knew she has been publishing lies and propaganda to protect Bruce Lehrmann and the Liberal Party?
Why didn’t you give the report to other journalists?
Do you have any relationship with Bruce Lehrmann, his friends or family?
When was the last time you visited Toowoomba or its surrounding areas?
Do you still have a plane at Toowoomba airport?

Please respond by 5pm Sunday the 6^th of August 2023 in case I have further questions and so I can publish.

Regards

Shane Dowling

Walter Sofronoff responded 1 hour and 21 minutes later with the below email:

From: Walter Sofronoff <walter@sofronoff.com.au>
Sent: Sunday, August 6, 2023 12:06 PM
To: SHANE DOWLING
Subject: Re: Media questions from Shane Dowling – Kangaroo Court of Australia

I will be out of the office until 17 November 2023. If the matter is urgent please contact my assistant.

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Walter Sofronoff has tried to make it look like an automatically generated email but as someone said on Twitter:

“LOL, he expects us to believe an “auto out-of-office” reply using Outlook for iOS took 80+ minutes! Pull the other one! He obviously doesn’t know technology, the times in the reply is proof that his thinly veiled attempt to trick us he is away is BS!”

I also sent Walter Sofronoff the above questions via text to his mobile phone. He has not answered the questions.

Walter Sofronoff owns a plane in Toowoomba

A regular reader gave me the tip that Walter Sofronoff is a pilot and had an airplane crash in 2014 just after taking off from the Toowoomba airport which is where Bruce Lehrmann is from and that explains some of the questions in the above email.

The Courier Mail reported on the 2nd of August 2014:

Key points in the article are:

QUEENSLAND’S former solicitor general Walter Sofronoff has miraculously walked away from a plane crash “without a scratch’’ after his Tiger Moth ploughed through a fence and hit a tree, coming to rest metres from a major highway.

Emergency services personnel said the QC was lucky to escape injury after the plane crashed only two or three metres from the Warrego Highway in Toowoomba.

Mr Sofronoff has been flying planes for 14 years. He bought the 1940s de Havilland Tiger Moth around 18 months ago. (Click here to read the article)

Based on what it says in the article Walter Sofronoff has been flying since 2000 and bought the plane – VH-BCC – at the beginning of 2013.

A search on the Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA) Aircraft register is the below:

(Click here to see the above details on the CASA website)

That means Walter Sofronoff has owned the plane for 11 years and it was at Toowoomba for at least a few years and is likely still there, but Walter Sofronoff has gone into hiding and won’t answer questions.

Toowoomba is a not a huge place so there has to be a chance that Walter Sofronoff at least knows some people that Bruce Lehrmann and his family know. But once again we don’t know as Walter Sofronoff has gone into hiding.

As a former judge Walter Sofronoff would have known there would be a perception of bias and he should have declared to the ACT government and made a public statement that he regularly travelled and stayed in Toowoomba and whether he knew Bruce Lehrmann or his family and friends. I asked Sofronoff in the above email which he could have answered and cleared the air but he has chosen not to.

Walter Sofronoff worked the phones during the ACT Inquiry calling journalists to push his propaganda

Walter Sofronoff was personally calling journalists to trash whistleblower Shane Drumgold. How do I know? I spoke to him for 32 minutes after he emailed me asking to talk but all he did was trash Drumgold. The phone record on my mobile is below.

The bottom line is that Walter Sofronoff was trying to influence me to write articles trashing whistleblower Shane Drumgold’s reputation to help Walter Sofronoff stitch him up in Sofronoff’s ultimate goal to cover-up the Liberal Party – AFP cover-up of Brittany Higgins alleged rape at Parliament House.

The question that people should be asking is: What is Inquiry Chairperson Walter Sofronoff doing talking to independent journalists during the course of an Inquiry trying to get them to write articles trashing the reputation of whistleblower Shane Drumgold who is one of the people Sofronoff is meant to be investigating? And given that, how many times did Walter Sofronoff talk to News Corp propagandists Janet Albrechtsen and Samantha Maiden?

Someone on Twitter, where I have already published the above picture, said I shouldn’t publish Walter Sofronoff’s mobile phone number and normally I would agree.

But this case is different because I wouldn’t have Walter Sofronoff’s mobile number if he didn’t give it to me while he was trying to commit a crime and the fact that he gave me his mobile number is a key part of the evidence that should be on the public record.

Walter Sofronoff has a lot of questions to answer and he can’t stay in hiding forever.

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