Icac delays in Gladys Berejiklian investigation a ‘black mark’ on watchdog, ex-judge says

Icac was expected to deliver its findings on former NSW premier Gladys Berejiklian last year but now says that might not happen until after the March state election. Photograph: Mark Kolbe/Getty Images

The further delay of the New South Wales anti-corruption watchdog’s report into the conduct of former premier Gladys Berejiklian is a “black mark” against the agency, a former supreme court judge has said.

Anthony Whealy KC, a former assistant commissioner at the Independent Commission Against Corruption and a longtime defender of the watchdog, has launched a strident criticism of its handling of the Operation Keppel investigation into Berejiklian, saying the repeated delays were “unfair” to the former premier.