I called the cops about a break-in.
They arrested me instead.

I was out at work when my phone alerted me: someone was inside my apartment, and at the exact same time, someone was logging into my online accounts, searching for files, and downloading my personal photos. My cameras recorded him inside my home while I was away. I messaged him that I had video of him taking something from my room and using drugs at my dining table.

Police tried to put me in jail. They called it a strong case and asked the court to keep me in custody while I waited for court.

Across the first two prosecutions, police took seven charges to court. Five failed. After all that, the only penalties were two minimum fines over security-camera stills showing the person I had reported inside my home.

It cost me years of my life and burned through police time, court time and public money. That was not a successful prosecution. It was a police failure.

Because of that first arrest, I was put on bail conditions telling me not to contact the guy. A few months later, police charged me with breaking bail over an alleged phone call. Police told the Court that Rushton recognised my voice. But their own body-camera recording described something very different. Rushton said an unidentified friend answered the alleged call. Rushton later played him a separate recording that Rushton claimed was me. After comparing that recording with about five words from the alleged call, the friend said he was 80% sure it sounded like the same voice. He refused to identify himself, give a statement, show identification or be a witness.

Even without carrier records or a single willing witness statement, police took me to hearing anyway. That charge failed in court.

Two years later, police charged me again over another alleged phone call—even though their own carrier search showed zero calls. That case was later dismissed. They also accused me of sending messages to an Instagram account. (It turned out the Instagram account was actually a fake profile created and used by him to impersonate an old friend of mine).

They put the document proving zero calls right inside their own evidence brief (Item 9), yet prosecuted me regardless. At the same time, a foundational item identified in the brief index (Item 7: documents provided by the victim) was missing from the copy served on the defence. That prosecution was dismissed when he refused to give evidence in court.

After five years and three prosecutions, I decided enough was enough. At 3:33 in the morning on 25 June 2025, I lodged a formal written complaint to a Federal Cabinet Minister's office asking for oversight.

Why did he do it? You don't have to guess. In his own written email two days later, the officer explained his reason: "the gentleman has made further complaints to a Federal Ministers Office and I need to respond to them." Meanwhile, Queensland Health records confirmed I had no history on their mental-health system and recorded intact capacity with no basis for action.