VICTORIA'S tainted roadside drug tests will continue despite a humiliating blow for the State Government and police yesterday. On the day the Herald Sun revealed an independent laboratory had cleared van driver John De Jong, a police lab confirmed the negative result. Mr De Jong was the first driver in the world to return a positive roadside saliva test and he may now sue the Government and Victoria Police for the slur on his name. The Royal Automobile Club of Victoria (RACV) said the drug bus launch was a "fiasco" and that motorists had to be sure the tests were accurate. [continues 593 words]
A VIOLENT drug dealer described by police as one of Australia's most dangerous criminals smiled yesterday after beating his third murder charge in four years. Anton Lukacevic, who once savagely bashed a four-year-old girl with an axe handle, was found not guilty in the Supreme Court of the murder of fellow drug dealer Jimmy Foster. The jury took less than 45 minutes to reach its verdict believed to be one of the shortest ever deliberations in a Victorian murder trial. [continues 438 words]
