Tara Brown’s Channel Nine boss admits 60 Minutes made mistakes in Lebanon case

Channel Nine's news boss admits the network needs to reconsider the current strategies on big-money stories after the 60 Minutes coverage of the recovery of two children in Lebanon went horribly wrong. Scroll down for video Nine News Boss Darren Wick admits the network's protocols failed after the botched kidnapping of two children in Lebanon resulted in the arrest of the 60 minutes crew A bank statement has emerged which allegedly shows that the Nine Network directly paid at least $69,000 for the failed kidnapping of two children in Lebanon Adam Whittington, the founder of the firm - who is still behind bars - claimed this is proof that Nine paid for the failed abduction that landed Tara Brown, her 60 Minutes crew and a mother in jail ‘We can’t sit here and think: “we didn’t do anything wrong, we had a bit of bad luck”. 60 Minutes presenter Tara Brown and Brisbane mother Sally Faulkner were pictured walking free from jail in Beirut on Wednesday Adam Whittington and Craig Michael remain in a Beirut jail facing kidnapping charges after allegedly leading the failed child recovery operation Tara Brown and her three-man crew were released on bail on Wednesday along with Ms Faulkner after her ex-husband, Ali Elamine, 32, dropped the charges. Ms Brown was pictured being shoved into a police car on Monday after a court hearing was postponed Ms Brown was caught in the middle of a frenzy outside a Beirut court earlier this week, but she said it looked worse than it was Faulkner in the mini van as she leaves the Beirut jail after her release with the 60 Minutes crew The veteran reporter was pictured walking free from jail two weeks after the botched abduction attempt 'It is important to reiterate that at no stage did anyone from Nine or 60 Minutes intend to act in any way that made them susceptible to charges that they breached the law or to become part of the story that is Sally's story. Tara Brown was detained on kidnapping charges with a 60 Minutes crew that filmed the 'child abduction' of Sally Faulkner's two children in Lebanon on April 7 Mr Whittington's lawyer claimed his client was paid a total of $115,000 to snatch Sally Faulkner's two children from her estranged husband's family on a Beirut street on April 6 The two children will now live with their father, Mr Elamine in Lebanon after he was granted full custody The breakthrough came after Ms Faulkner secured a deal with her estranged partner in which she gave Mr Elamine full custody of the children in return for her release.