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Lindsay Murdoch, Darwin August 16, 2010 - THE AGE
A FORMER Victorian detective wanted on serious drugs charges in the Northern Territory visited a hotel in the East Timor capital Dili that is the home of dozens of Australian police deployed with the United Nations.
Clifton Robert Lockwood, who was acquitted of the murder of an underworld figure in Melbourne 21 years ago, was in East Timor on June 22 when he was supposed to appear in the Darwin Magistrates Court on charges relating to the seizure of thousands of pseudoephedrine tablets.
A magistrate last week ordered his $5000 bail to be forfeited and NT police issued a warrant for his arrest after he failed to appear in court for a second time.
Several Timorese residents of Dili who know Lockwood have told The Age they have recently seen him in the city, where he lived for several years.
He was sighted at the Timor Lodge, a hotel near Dili's international airport where Australian police deployed to East Timor live in demountable rooms.
Lockwood told The Age after his arrest in Darwin last December that he had been "set up" in a sting operation and would contest charges that included possessing and supplying a precursor to a dangerous drug.
He said he would reveal the "real story" behind his arrest after the charges were heard.
In 1989, Lockwood fired seven shots into Gary Abdallah in his Carlton flat after the 24-year-old pulled a fake gun.
Abdallah was a suspect in the Walsh Street police killings the year before.
Lockwood and his then partner Dermot Avon were charged with Abdallah's murder but a jury acquitted them five years later.
After quitting the police force in the early 1990s, Lockwood established a locksmith business and then as East Timor emerged as the world's newest democracy in the early 2000s he set-up a vehicle hire business in Dili, where he was a well known in social circles and the business community.
Northern Territory police have not made a public appeal for information about Lockwood's whereabouts.
Asked about him, a spokesman confirmed that a warrant had been issued for Lockwood's arrest.
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Lindsay Murdoch, Darwin August 16, 2010 - THE AGE
A FORMER Victorian detective wanted on serious drugs charges in the Northern Territory visited a hotel in the East Timor capital Dili that is the home of dozens of Australian police deployed with the United Nations.
Clifton Robert Lockwood, who was acquitted of the murder of an underworld figure in Melbourne 21 years ago, was in East Timor on June 22 when he was supposed to appear in the Darwin Magistrates Court on charges relating to the seizure of thousands of pseudoephedrine tablets.
A magistrate last week ordered his $5000 bail to be forfeited and NT police issued a warrant for his arrest after he failed to appear in court for a second time.
Several Timorese residents of Dili who know Lockwood have told The Age they have recently seen him in the city, where he lived for several years.
He was sighted at the Timor Lodge, a hotel near Dili's international airport where Australian police deployed to East Timor live in demountable rooms.
Lockwood told The Age after his arrest in Darwin last December that he had been "set up" in a sting operation and would contest charges that included possessing and supplying a precursor to a dangerous drug.
He said he would reveal the "real story" behind his arrest after the charges were heard.
In 1989, Lockwood fired seven shots into Gary Abdallah in his Carlton flat after the 24-year-old pulled a fake gun.
Abdallah was a suspect in the Walsh Street police killings the year before.
Lockwood and his then partner Dermot Avon were charged with Abdallah's murder but a jury acquitted them five years later.
After quitting the police force in the early 1990s, Lockwood established a locksmith business and then as East Timor emerged as the world's newest democracy in the early 2000s he set-up a vehicle hire business in Dili, where he was a well known in social circles and the business community.
Northern Territory police have not made a public appeal for information about Lockwood's whereabouts.
Asked about him, a spokesman confirmed that a warrant had been issued for Lockwood's arrest.
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