Perth Voice Interactive

A FORMER sub-contractor for Stirling city council has been gaoled for 15 months for bribing a council employee. In November a jury found Kim Laurence Walter, 56, guilty of providing a council contractor a $43,450 bobcat to use on his hobby farm. The court found the bobcat was a “sweetener” in return for Walter’s company Maintenance and Management Solutions being awarded $346,255 of work from the council. A former council manager who awarded work to contractors, who was a key witness, committed suicide on the eve of a corruption and crime commission hearing into the $5 million contracts scandal. Astonishingly, and against all precedent, the dead man’s name remains suppressed. This is the final case stemming from the rorts investigation, with six other private contractors having already been convicted.