Andrew L. Urban
For those who may have missed the following exchange on the comments section of the recent memorial page for Frank Valentine (11/8/2025) … please note: former Detective Sergeant Timothy Paul was also in charge of the Noel Greenaway investigation. Both men were convicted of historical sexual abuse in the 60s and 70s at the Parramatta Training School for Girls.
My book Presumption of Evil deals with the Noel Greenaway case and its upcoming sequel, Presumption of Evil 2, deals with the Frank Valentine case. I show how both men (in 2019) were wrongfully convicted. For reasons not evident, Timothy Paul only refers to the case of Noel Greenaway in his comment on a post which doesn’t mention Greenaway – only Frank Valentine.
TIMOTHY PAUL comment
I was the officer in charge of the Greenaway investigation. He is an evil child sex offender who was convicted on the substantial evidence I accumulated over six years of investigation. The fact you say he was convicted on the testimony of victims alone shows your ignorance and bias. Maybe you should get your hands on the 20,000 page brief of evidence I prepared and educate yourself on the true facts in this matter. Greenaway was convicted beyond any reasonable doubt on the totality of the evidence presented and then his conviction was clearly upheld in a higher Court. Your support of this convicted paedophile is abhorrent and highlights twisted morals and values. Greenaway deserves to spend the rest of his life in prison as the Court determined.
In reply to Timothy Paul
ANDREW L. URBAN
I daresay you have to defend the conviction, Mr Paul, and I’m sure you believe in Greenaway’s evil. But claiming the conviction was upheld by a higher Court is unpersuasive. Many convictions upheld by a higher Court have later been shown to be wrongful. Then there are those miscarriages of justice that the legal system has failed to correct and others have identified. EG Sue Neill-Fraser, Derek Bromley etc. As for “the totality of evidence”, in his summing up to the jury, the judge explained: “The evidence comprises the answers that witnesses gave to questions asked of them…” Maybe you should get your hands on my book for a broader view of the matter.
BACKGROUND (extract from Presumption of Evil)
NSW Police launched Strike Force BILVO on 16 April 2014, with DS Tim Paul as the Officer In Charge. His dedication was absolute, as he stated at the trial when a few years later he went off sick and sued the NSW Government for negligence.
PAUL: I was a hundred percent dedicated to the victims…….. I wanted to do my absolute best for them to try and get them some justice.
COUNSEL ASSISTING: To that extent were you dedicated to investigating this to the best of your ability so as to secure convictions of these two men (Greenaway & Vincent).
PAUL: Without a doubt I was 100% committed to it.
In these circumstances, Tim Paul’s dedication in respect of Greenaway and Valentine would be termed ‘tunnel vision’.
On 31 July, 2023, Tim Paul was awarded $1,828,862 in a civil trial as compensation for past economic loss including super, future economic loss including super, loss of promotion & overtime from 2019. He was 47.
Open invitation to Timothy Paul: I would be happy to send you a complimentary digital copy of Presumption of Evil if you wish to read why I don’t believe that Greenaway was guilty beyond reasonable doubt. Send me a request: Andrew.urban@wrongfulconvictionsreport.org
Here’s a glimpse into the Chapter, The Trouble With Memory:
CLAIM
Deborah McLennan: Remembers Greenaway at Ormond. ‘I still remember him putting me in segro on Xmas day’.
FACT
There was no segregation at Ormond School.
CLAIM
Mary Farrell Hooker (facebook)
10 June 2016
‘Todat I was having a shower..and I was taken back to the showers room at Parramatta girls home..i turned the shower off as I had been there for more than three minutes.. I started to cry and my cries turned to sobs..which took a while i had to forced myself to get back i. The shower to wash my hair it felt good as then I realised where I wad.. in the shower at home hill not Parramatta girls home.. this happens from time to time..but only just started to happen more since greenaway and valintine has now been charged…is this the beginning of the end.. the trial hasn’t even started yet..’ [sic]
FACT
Greenaway had left Parramatta GTS four to five years before Hooker was
admitted to that institution.
A further complicating factor in the search for accurate 45-50 year-old memories is the similarity of the names Greenaway and Greenham. As one former PTSG inmate wrote on facebook, “I was there 73 there was monahan, Gilford, valentine a bit confused with either green-am or greenaway”
Greenaway left PTSG on July 16, 1967.
Andrew . Every policeman i have ever asked is firmly of the belief that Lindy Chamberlain cut her babies throat when sitting in the front seat of Michael’s beloved Holden. The Tom Cat expert from Londinium had all the expertise needed to ice the screen play – the conviction was fully supported by the mainstream toilet paper. Very few of these “tuff on crime” types have even heard of Sue Neill-Fraser or Noel Greenaway.
However there is full support at Commissioner level for policemen’s dogs chewing children’s faces….and throwing children into adult prison cells – tripped head-first to the concrete floor –
A policeman’s lot is not a happy one…
Andrew… go for it. So much corruption and it’s in the system! The only chance we have is to call it out.
My man is the fight of his life with false accusations of historical SA.
The Detective in my case was Melanie Staples. She was a lesbian , who clearly hated men. The journalist who covered the story was another lesbian . She was not permitted to print until a verdict was reached. Years later my stepdaughter left her husband of 17 years to marry this lesbian journalist. In the police brief were statements from several people , in support of my stepdaughter. My stepdaughter referred to a room in these events, as somewhere I came from to molest her. Plans of the house submitted to council to build this room and much more were approved in Oct 1988 and the works took over a year to complete as stated by our builder. So in the police’s own brief given to DPP to. Assist my prosecution was definitive , actual forensic proof that the room did not exist in 1986 ,the year of the alleged offense In spite of Police knowing all this ,they failed to ask one question as to this important anomaly. There were witnesses for the prosecution who say they met with my stepdaughter and others in 1986 . In spite of school records showing some witnesses were new arrivals and were not known to each other until 1988, Police failed to ask questions arising from this impossible scenario. DPP took exactly the same brief and ran with it. Fraud at ever level. !I hope the new basis for review jails true fraudsters who put an innocent man in prison. And members of the system which aided and abetted them peter v