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Subscriber only A Northern Rivers man who groped a 14-year-old girl while she was on a bike ride with her friend has been sentenced. Keegan Mani Hamilton, 19, had pleaded guilty to intentionally sexually touching a child aged between 10 and 16 years. A further charge of the same nature and another for failing to appear in court were taken into account at his sentencing. Hamilton, who has lived in Tweed Heads and South Murwillumbah in recent years, was stumbling and carrying a cask of wine when he came across the two girls on a busy Tweed Heads road on February 14 last year.
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Subscriber only An extra charge has been laid against two Ballina brothers charged with assaulting a man in a Byron Bay park. Tory John Martin-Manton, 24 and Jarett Martin-Manton, 25, were each initially charged with affray and causing grievous bodily harm to a person with intent. When the case against them went before Tweed Heads Local Court on Monday, a further charge of wounding a person with intent to cause grievous bodily harm had been laid against both of the men. The paid were arrested in the early hours of Sunday, September 20 last year following an alleged fight in Apex Park, on the foreshore of Byron Bay s Main Beach.
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