THE AGE - Australia
Danielle Teutsch
July 29, 2007
A FORMER Sydney MP who raised sex abuse allegations against a cult leader a decade ago says it is a shame he will never be brought to justice.
Stephen Mutch, former federal member for Cook, said Ken Dyers had taken "the coward's way out" by taking his own life last Wednesday.
Dyers, 85, the founder of the healing cult Kenja Communication, was committed last year to stand trial on 22 charges of aggravated indecent and sexual assault upon two 12-year-old girls. He was arrested in 2005.
The trial was deferred after the NSW District Court deemed him unfit for trial in May and ordered a mental health assessment. Supporters of Dyers have taken out a full-page advertisement in The Sunday Age and other papers mourning his death and protesting his innocence.
Dyers' wife and co-founder of Kenja, Jan Hamilton, said the ad was taken out by "angry and upset individuals" who were frustrated that her husband's case had not been accurately portrayed in the media.
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2007/07/28/1185339333767.html
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