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Subscriber only A Northern Rivers police officer who has pleaded not guilty to a common assault charge has disagreed with a suggestion he was in a heightened state , was frustrated and lost self-control . Michial Luke Greenhalgh has been defending an allegation six baton strikes he inflicted upon a 16-year-old boy in Byron Bay was an unreasonable use of force and constituted common assault. The charge arose from a January 11, 2018 police operation during which he and three colleagues detained a teen in Lateen Lane in Byron Bay. When DPP prosecutor Brittany Parker asked Sen-Constable Greenhalgh if he assumed the young person was going to be violent and if he was in a heightened state , frustrated and lost self-control , he said this was not the case.
Photo: Aslan Shand.
Motorists travelling from Ocean Shores to Brunswick Heads were met with the unusual sight of a car mounted on the roundabout at Brunswick Valley Way and Riverside Crescent on Wednesday morning.
Detective Chief Inspector Matt Kehoe from Byron Bay police station told
The Echo that police responded to the incident around midnight and arrested the young driver.
The 16-year-old was charged with domestic violence assault, assault police, resisting arrest, special range drink driving, and being an unaccompanied learner. Bail was refused and he was due to face the Ballina Children’s Court on Wednesday.
Detective Chief Inspector Kehoe said the driver’s family was making arrangements for the removal of the car.
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Subscriber only A 23-year-old woman had her driver s licence confiscated and cancelled after she was caught driving while more than four times over the legal alcohol limit. About 3am on Saturday, police stopped a silver Holden hatch on Woodford Lane, Ewingsdale for a random breath test. Detective Chief Inspector Matt Kehoe said the Eungella woman returned a positive result, so she was arrested and taken to Byron Bay Police Station for a further breath analysis. The driver was subject to a breath analysis which returned a reading of 0.207 grams of alcohol in 210 litres of breath, he said. Her driver s license was confiscated and suspended.
Premium Content Investigations are continuing after a 34-year-old man was attacked with a machete or similar weapon. Officers from Tweed Heads Police were alerted to the incident when the man was taken to Tweed Heads Hospital for treatment for wounds to his hands and legs on Friday night. They then established a crime scene at a home on Anne St, Chinderah. Detective Chief Inspector Matt Kehoe said it was believed the attack was a targeted assault, and the offenders were known to the victim. Police later stopped a Toyota van on Ewingsdale Rd, near Byron Bay, he said. Three males were detained while two others ran away on foot.