A panel that includes key Greyhound Racing NSW officials will this afternoon conclude a two-day hearing at Cessnock into mass dog burial sites.
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The sport’s governing body denied media access to the hearing yesterday but is expected to release a statement with its findings and what further action, if any, may be appropriate.
“Under Greyhound Racing NSW (GRNSW) rules our default position is to hold hearings of this nature in private,” a GRNSW spokesman said.
“The media can make applications to attend but if a [witness] objects the meeting will remain closed.”
The panel includes GRNSW integrity and racing general manager Bill Fanning, who chaired the hearing.
Mr Fanning has been in charge of integrity since 2009.
Beside him on the panel is GRNSW chief steward Clint Bentley who has overseen racing activities since 2009.
The Mercury understands that former NSW police deputy commissioner David Madden is also on the panel.
Mr Madden completed one of the three investigations at the Keinbah Track.
Investigations were reopened in the Hunter Valley when a report into the region’s greyhound racing industry was handed to police.
Two greyhound burial sites at the Keinbah Trial Track are under investigation. It is alleged that dog owners paid to have dogs shot and disposed of.
The hearing was also prompted by the impending Special Commission of Inquiry into the Greyhound Racing Industry in NSW, which will start its formal opening on June 10 in Sydney.