Press & Oversight Brief

Reported cybercrime that was not investigated — and three prosecutions brought instead.

Anthony Smith · kandykingxcase.com · This brief summarises material set out in full, with sources, on the main site.

I reported online impersonation, identity theft and harassment to NSW Police from 2020, with account links, screenshots and financial traces. The reports were not investigated as cybercrime. I was prosecuted three times instead. This brief is for journalists and oversight bodies: it sets out the case in one page and points to the documented record behind each claim.

The case in brief

From 2020 I reported impersonation and identity theft to NSW Police (Kings Cross PAC), supported by account links, screenshots, financial traces and later a commissioned forensic report.
The reports were not investigated as cybercrime. The person I reported has never been charged by that command.
I was prosecuted three times. Prosecution 1 (2022): of seven counts, five were dismissed and two findings of guilt stood — for distributing two images that were stills from my own home security cameras showing the person I had reported inside my apartment. Minimum penalty, $500 each.
Prosecution 2 (2022): contravene-AVO on an alleged phone call — not guilty after hearing. The number was attributed to an account the carrier confirmed had never been connected; the officer in charge conceded in writing the alleged app call would not appear in carrier records.
Prosecution 3 (2024–25): use carriage service to menace/harass — withdrawn and dismissed when the complainant refused to give evidence. The carrier nil-result disproving the alleged call was held 99 days before charging and was not in the brief served on me.
Every tier of NSW oversight has since closed the matter without engaging the documentary record — including the LECC, the Inspector of the LECC, and the Minister for Police, whose office returned the correspondence to the police force it concerned.

Key dates

Date	Event
2020–2022	Impersonation / identity-theft reports to Kings Cross PAC; not investigated
Jan 2022	Prosecution 1 commenced (H85611724)
Aug 2022	Prosecution 2 dismissed — not guilty after hearing (H91613788)
16 Nov 2022	I relocated to Queensland; later reports handled cross-border
Feb 2024	Carrier nil-result obtained (99 days before charging in Prosecution 3)
May 2024	Prosecution 3 charged (H81615839)
Apr 2025	Cybertrace forensic report commissioned and provided to police
10 Jun 2025	Prosecution 3 withdrawn and dismissed
Jun 2025	Cross-border welfare check; no Triple Zero call recorded in GIPA returns
Jan–Feb 2026	Ministerial correspondence; police self-response F/2026/10870
19 May 2026	Inspector of the LECC closes complaint C82-2526/A8579640

Key people (in official or documented capacity)

Anthony Smith — author; reported the conduct, was prosecuted. Train driver 20+ years (Queensland Rail, later Sydney Trains).

@kandykingX — the person reported; subject of the impersonation and identity-theft reports.

The Hon Yasmin Catley MP — NSW Minister for Police; office issued response F/2026/10870.

Cybertrace — forensic provider; report Ref 2025-4663.

LECC — independent police-oversight commission; six files closed.

Inspector of the LECC — oversees the commission; closed C82-2526/A8579640, 19 May 2026.

Police officers and officials are named on the main site only where they acted in official capacity and a documented fact or question attaches to the name.

Evidence index

Ref	Item	What it shows
A1	Cybertrace report (Ref 2025-4663)	Linked an email it attributed to the suspect to a Microsoft account created in my name; made recommendations to police not acted upon
A2	Carrier records (Prosecution 3)	Nil-result disproving the alleged call, held 99 days before charging; absent from the brief
A3	Carrier records (Prosecution 2)	Number never connected to the network; OIC's written concession re app calls
A4	GIPA returns (NSW Police)	Including the "Not Held" finding on the communication ban and the record-destruction admission (REV-2025-0858525)
A5	QLD Health RTI (JIAU25/13749)	The cross-border welfare referral and its stated basis
A6	Court records	Outcomes of all three prosecutions (H85611724, H91613788, H81615839)
A7	Oversight correspondence	LECC, Inspector of the LECC, Ministerial and command closure letters

For journalists

Unredacted originals of the records summarised here are available for review on request. The site publishes redacted versions only; private citizens' details are removed.

Contact: contact@kandykingxcase.com

Other individuals have contacted me describing comparable experiences with the same command and complaint pathways. With their consent, introductions can be made.

This is a summary. Every claim above is set out with its full source on the main archive at kandykingxcase.com. Where this brief and a court or agency record differ, the underlying record governs. I am not a lawyer; nothing here is a legal determination.