For­mer na­tion­al se­cu­ri­ty min­is­ter Gary Grif­fith has pushed back against claims raised in Par­lia­ment about the cir­cum­stances sur­round­ing the 2014 mur­der of Dana See­ta­hal, SC, stat­ing that dur­ing his tenure, no re­ports ever reached the coun­try’s se­cu­ri­ty lead­er­ship in­di­cat­ing she was the tar­get of an as­sas­si­na­tion plot.

Grif­fith served as min­is­ter from 2012 to 2015.

His com­ments came af­ter De­fence Min­is­ter Wayne Sturge ref­er­enced See­ta­hal’s killing dur­ing a de­bate on the ex­ten­sion of the State of Emer­gency in Par­lia­ment last Fri­day.