Policeman Selected At Identification Parade

Press, Volume CII, Issue 30231, 9 September 1963, Page 13

Policeman Selected At Identification Parade

(N.Z. Frees Association—Copyright)

SYDNEY, Sept 8. Two young men yesterday selected from a Sydney police identification parade a plain-clothes policeman who, they said, saw the beating of Terence Waterhouse at the Central Police Station last Friday week. They asked the policeman, aged about 40, to remove has hat and speak before they identified him at toe CJ.B. Four groups of eight plaiinckitoes police lined up for each of the four young men in the presence of their legal adviser and senior police officers. The line-up was the second Which the young men had attended ait toe C. 1.8. this week. In the first, last Wednesday, one of them picked out a senior police constable from a line-up of 17 uniformed policemen. The young men are Terence Waterhouse, aged 19, of Willoughby; Sydney Grevett, aged 23. a salesman, of Waverley; Kenneth Crittle. aged 19, a car salesman, of Waver ley; and Bruce Gard, aged 22, a Customs officer, of Gordon. Mr Waterhouse claims he was beaten by police last Friday week after an incident ait

a Chinese cafe in toe caty. He received treatment at St. Vincent’s Hoapiaal after police released him. Two of hats companions at the time smd they had seen police asaiulit ham in die charge room. The Police Commtewioner iMr N. T. Allan) law week ordered toe acting Metropolitan Superintendent. Mr J. Rogers, and toe chief of the C. 1.8., Detectove-Supertotand - ent R. J. Walden, to inquire into the allegations. The police line-ups are taking place amidst strong criticism of police methods Recently toe public has learnt of two unconnected oases in which men have gone to hospital after being at police stations. A third man is still in hospital, drawings covering a hole in hiis cheat made by a police bullet. A Petty Sessions magistrate, Mr C. K. Wend, dismissed a atealing charge against a waiter, Graham Tweeddoie, after hearing evidence from detectives. Before rejecting the charges, Mr Ward observed that Tweeddale bad been injured badly enough to be sent to hospital, and remarked: . toe interview at toe poire station merits careful scrutiny."