ASSAULT BY POLICE.
INNOCENT MAN DETAINED. SYDNEY COURT AWARDS DAMAGES. 'United Press Association —Copyright) SYDNEY, September 18. An action for damages against three members of the Police Force for wrongful arrest, false imprisonment, and assault ended to-day in favour of the plaintiff, Robert Percy Manners, who was awarded £IOO damages on each count, a total of £3OO. Manners, who is a journeyman printer, gave evidence that while going to his borne in the Redferm district late at night he saw three men bundling another man into a car. Ho was scared, and began to run away, but was himself pursued and caught. He was very roughly handled by) two of the three men, who were Detective J. H. Silcock, Constable G. Mulfay and Constable G. Roach.
Manners said he was punched, bullied, and finally taken by car to the police station, where lie established a case of mistaken identity, and was released. The police were apparently looking for a man who had snatched a woman’s hand-bag. Each of the defendants denied the assault.
The Chief Justice, Sir Frederick Jordon, said the police had no right to arrest a citizen unless they were prepared to charge him with an offence immediately. The treatment of Manners constituted a serious assault.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 56, Issue 290, 19 September 1936, Page 5
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