DAMAGES AWARDED
POLICE OFFICERS SUED WRONGFUL ARREST, IMPRISONMENT AND ASSAULT NIGHT INCIDENT IN' SYDNEY (United Presß Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright) SYDNEY, 18th September. The action for damages against three members of the police, who were sued for. wrongful arrest, false imprisonment and assault, which ended tor day in favour of the plaintiff, Robert Percy Manners, who was awarded £IOO damages on each count, a total of £3OO, caused State-wide interest.
Manners, who is a journeyman printer, gave evidence that while going to his home late at night in the Redtern district,: he saw three men bundling another man into a car. He received a scare and began to run away, but was himself pursued and caught and very roughly handled by two of the three men, who happened to be Detective J. H. Silcock, Constable G. Murray, and Constable G. Roach. Manners' stated he was punched and bullied and finally taken by car to the police station where he established a case, of mistaken identity and was released.
The police were apparently looking for a man who snatched a lady’s handbag. Each defendant denied assault.
1 The' .Chief Justice,, Sir Frederick Jordan,- 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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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXX, 19 September 1936, Page 9
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