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
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