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Man acquitted of threatening to kill SA Premier Steven Marshall over TAFE reforms
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Kenneth Andrew Gillespie was acquitted of threatening to kill Premier Steven Marshall.
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A man has been acquitted of threatening to kill the South Australian Premier over the State Government s TAFE reforms in 2018.
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He has pleaded not guilty to the charge laid against him
Giving evidence in his own defence, he admitted to the court he has a tendency of running off at the mouth
Kenneth Andrew Gillespie, 65, faced a two-day trial in Adelaide s District Court after pleading not guilty to threatening a public officer.
MPs are demanding answers over a daring escape of a prisoner last month.
Crime by Matt Smith
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Subscriber only Investigations are continuing into the broad daylight escape of prisoner in Adelaide s CBD last month. On the one month anniversary of the incident, in which a prisoner escaped from the Adelaide Remand Centre by bending window louvres in the kitchen area, before scaling down a wall in rope made from pants and a T-shirt, the Opposition has called for answers.
Jason Burdon, 33, was apprehended and arrested, a day and a half after his daring escape, that had occurred just before 10am on December 2 2020.