Officer tells court he didn't 'lose self-control'
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 three colleagues detained a teen in Lateen Lane in Byron Bay. When DPP prosecutor Brittany Parker asked...
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