Man ‘thought policeman was molesting girl’
-( An unemployed truck -(driver beat a plain clothes .(policeman about the head ii with a billiard cue because .(he thought he was molesting ?ia girl, the Magistrate’s Court (was told yesterday. ( After the taking of depositions, Eru Lucian Hall, .(aged 27, denied assaulting i (■ Geoffrey David McCambridge ((with intent to injure him. . .( Mr E. J. Bradshaw and Miss J. Taylor, Justices of the , J Peace, ruled that there was ; <i case to answer. They com- ( (mitted Hall for trial in the , ((Supreme Court on February ; , 12 and remanded him on bail. t Sergeant R. H. Prouting , , prosecuted and Mr J. R. | Milligan appeared for the de-! fendant. Penelope Woodhouse said! 1 j that she was at, the Adam’s I:
Apple Nightclub on October, 27. She was asked to mind! her friend’s purse, and so she! put it on the floor and kept! her foot on it. Later she saw a female! bending over and groping around the floor. When her friend returned the purse had disappeared. Constable McCambridge said that he was at the Adam’s Apple with two other constables on October 27. Acting on information received he watched a male and female. The female picked up a purse and walked down the stairs. Sergeant Scott, who was also off duty, talked to the girl, then grabbed at (the bag. The girl fled out the door and down a nearby ! alley.
• Witness said he chased the I!girl until he suffered a heavy ((blow to the back of the head (land heard a person asking: I “What are you doing hassling (Imy girlfriend?” He was covered in blood ■ frc . the head wound which required 10 stitches. When interviewed by Con- ; stable S. Wilson, Hall said that he had gone to the night- ' club with four others. He! must have gone to sleep there! and gone out to the car. He saw a girl being chased down an alley by a man he thought was molesting her. He grabbed a stick and hit the man over the back of the head twice. Counsel reserved the defence.
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