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Premium Content 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 thre...

Premium Content Subscriber only Update 4.30pm: A Northern Rivers police officer has walked free from court after being found not guilty of a charge of common assault. Lismore Local Court began hearing evidence in the case against Senior Constable Michial Luke Greenhalgh, 39, in November last year. The hearing continued before Magistrate Michael Dakin this week. The officer pleaded not guilty to a charge of common assault, which the prosecution alleged he committed by way of six of 18 baton ...

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...

Premium Content Subscriber only Update: 2pm A Northern Rivers police officer charged with assaulting a teen in a Byron Bay laneway has told a court he deemed repeated baton strikes necessary to gain control of a "difficult" situation. Michial Luke Greenhalgh has pleaded not guilty to common assault over the January 11, 2018 detention of a teen boy in Lateen Lane. Sen-Constable Greenhalgh has told his hearing before Lismore Local Court of the situation police faced that night. "We had a job ...