Claim alleges police assault
A $30,000 damages claim alleging assault and wrongful arrest by the police has been filed in the High Court by a Riccarton diabetic. The action was filed last Friday, just one day before the Police Act’s one-year deadline for legal action against the police...
Mr Norman Adcock, aged 54, complained about the Incident, which occurred on the evening of June 11, 1987, when security guards found him in his workplace, at Riccarton Borough Council depot in Mandeville Street.
After the police were called it was found that he was lapsing into a hypoglycaemlc coma. The suit alleges that the policemen, Constables D. W. Peck and R. W. Barlass, assaulted Mr Adcock, used unnecessary force, and wrongfully arrested him.
The $30,000 claim for damages is against the Attorney-General, whom it alleges is liable for the actions of the constables. After Mr Adcock complained to the police the constables were cleared by an internal investigation.
He said yesterday he had hoped the Ombudsman’s decision on the' case would be available before the action was filed, but that complaint was still being investigated.
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Press, 17 June 1988, Page 5
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