BRUCE FRANCIS 27 WINCHELSEA WAY TERRANORA NSW 2486

26 February 2015
The Hon S Ley MP
Minister for Health and Sport
P O Box 6022
House of Representatives
Parliament House
Canberra ACT 2600

Dear Minister
RE: ASADAs charges against 34 Essendon players
I read with utter shock this morning that the CEO of ASADA, Mr Ben McDevitt, intends
appealing if the AFL tribunal clears the Essendon players of taking Thymosin Beta-4. Such
action by McDevitt would only compound the immeasurable damage ASADA has done to
Australian sport, Australian football, Essendon Football Club and the lives of the Essendon
players and their families.
Your predecessor, Mr Dutton, deserves praise for not interfering with ASADA despite its
obvious incompetence and stupidity, but enough is enough, and it is time you put it, and us,
out of our misery. I can prove ASADAs investigation was corrupted it changed evidence;
it fabricated evidence; it omitted evidence; and it even testified in its own investigation.
Obviously, a Senate Inquiry is required but investigating my allegations is not urgent.
Stopping an appeal by ASADA is.
It is incomprehensible the players were charged when there was no evidence of wrong-doing
and you and your government will have to wear the flak if you allow ASADA to further
damage the players lives and allow ASADA to throw more taxpayers money away. Months
ago, ASADAs legal team lamented that it had nothing to work with. Obviously, the faade
should have been called off then, but as ASADA was only tearing up taxpayers money, it
persisted. The current hearing confirmed the lawyers had nothing to work with.
Thirty-four Essendon players were charged with using Thymosin Beta-4. Even a high school
student who watched any of Perry Mason, The Good Wife, Matlock, Rompole of the Bailey,
Boston Legal, The Practice, Suits, Rake, Jake and the Fatman, Murder One, Silk, The
Defendants or LA Law would know that ASADA had to prove that player 1 was
administered Thymosin Beta-4. It had to prove player 2 was administered Thymosin Beta-4.
It had to prove players 3, 4 34 were administered Thymosin Beta-4. ASADA made no
such effort. ASADAs lawyers did not offer any evidence that individual players were
administered Thymosin Beta-4, which begs the questions, why were they charged and why
didnt the tribunal dismiss the charges immediately after the oral submissions.

BRUCE FRANCIS 27 WINCHELSEA WAY TERRANORA NSW 2486

Although I know it to be true, I cant believe it to be true, ASADAs case unconscionably
rested on the Player Information / Consent forms. The players signed a form between 8 13
February 2012, consenting to being administered Thymosin. Please note, they did not consent
to being administered Thymosin Beta-4. ASADAs evidence was that because a player
consented to being administered Thymosin in February that meant a few weeks or months
later all 34 were administered a different substance, Thymosin Beta-4. That is nonsense.
There is an ocean to cross between proving consent to being administered substance 1
(Thymosin) meant that each player was administered substance 2 (Thymosin Beta-4). Far
from crossing the ocean, ASADAs lawyers drowned before they crossed the first surf break.
I was surprised that the Essendon lawyers did not call Mr Abbott and Ms Gillard to testify.
Both would have been able to testify that there is a huge difference between consenting to do
something (a promise) and actually doing it.
Rather than agreeing to a McDevitt request to appeal you should tell him to leave his keys at
reception, and you should announce a government inquiry into the whole investigation and
the decision to charge the players.

Yours faithfully

Bruce Francis