A 37-year-old NSW woman who failed to take a breath test 20 times told police she was swerving potholes before being dragged out of her car and arrested.
Zoran Radovanovic, 52, jetted off to return to his homeland after he was charged with multiple offences for sneaking out of Sydney during lockdown in August.
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Subscriber only All but one of the trio accused of robbing the Brunswick Heads Bowls Club while armed have agreed on the facts of what happened on the night of March 12 last year. The matters of Allie Alex, Beau Hinze-Yates and Tori May Perkiss were mentioned in Tweed Heads Local Court on March 12. Police allege about 12.30am on March 12, a woman was threatened by Mr Hinze-Yates, who was armed with shorn-off shotgun, after closing the licensed venue. Detectives have arrested three people over an alleged armed robbery at Brunswick Heads. It s alleged the 28-year-old then forced the woman to reopen the business before he stole cash and threatened a security guard who arrived during the incident.
Mia Armitage
Magistrate Michael Dakin has ordered a common assault charge against a former Byron-based policeman be dropped after an altercation involving a naked youth in Byron Bay three years ago.
Earlier this week, the Department of Public Prosecutions
[DPP] argued Senior Constable Michial Luke Greenhalgh had entered a state of ‘red mist’ when he struck the boy, who he says he didn’t realise was sixteen, a final six times with his baton. DPP’s Brittany Parker. Photo supplied.
Prosecutor Brittany Parker said ‘red mist’ was a state of frustration that could manifest suddenly in a sufferer focussing excessively on a particular target and exercising poor judgment.
Mia Armitage
Senior Constable Michial Luke Greenhalgh is alleged to have assaulted the teenage boy in Lateen Lane, sometime between two and three o’clock in the morning on 11 January 2018, after responding to reports of him wandering half-naked and calling out.
Holiday-makers, a Byron resident and a backpackers’ hostel manager all saw or heard parts of the interaction between the youth and the four police officers on-scene.
One witness took video footage that quickly made national headlines and was later used as evidence in a Law Enforcement Conduct Commission
[LECC] inquiry examining the actions of all four policemen featured.
The LECC recommended the Department of Public Prosecutions