Premier Jay Weatherill says ex-student paid $30,000 in hush money should be able to talk A FORMER student paid $30,000 in hush money after he was wrongly accused of accessing child porn from a school computer should be able to speak out if he wishes, Premier Jay Weatherill says. Mr Weatherill this morning extended his own apology to the former student who, in 2004 when in Year 10, was wrongly accused of accessing explicit porn websites from school computers. The Australian reports $30,000 was paid to the former student in February last year on the condition he kept details of the case secret. Mr Weatherill said the man should be able to discuss the case if he felt obliged to. "If that person does feel as though they are constrained in any way about talking about this, I'd like to know about that," he told ABC 891. I think they should be relieved of any obligation that would prevent them from speaking about this matter, because I think that would be a bad thing if they felt that way. Obviously something bad has happened here in terms of the student having a false allegation laid against them. I think the (education) department has issued an apology to that student and I certainly repeat it again today; something bad has happened. The Australian reports that the money was paid on the condition the entire case, including all facts and circumstances involving the matter and leading up the settlement, not be disclosed to anyone. It also reports there was an investigation into the ex-student's teacher at the time being the culprit for viewing the porn. The student left the school before he reached the end of Year 10.