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Mia Armitage Magistrate Michael Dakin has ordered a common assault charge against a former Byron-based policeman be dropped after an altercation involving a naked youth in Byron Bay three years ago. Earlier this week, the Department of Public Prosecutions [DPP] argued Senior Constable Michial Luke Greenhalgh had entered a state of ‘red mist’ when he struck the boy, who he says he didn’t realise was sixteen, a final six times with his baton. DPP’s Brittany Parker. Photo supplied. Prosecutor Brittany Parker said ‘red mist’ was a state of frustration that could manifest suddenly in...

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 th...