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A northern Tasmanian man will spend at least six months in jail for ‘glassing’ another man at a Burnie nightclub.
John Anthony Evenett, 22, of Burnie pleaded guilty in the Supreme Court to wounding the man at the nightclub last February.
His victim lost his two front teeth, bled profusely and needed 10 stitches in his chin after Evenett hit him in the face with a glass.
A police recruit has been arrested and charged with assault.
The man, 38, is due to face Elizabeth Magistrates Court.
A Kalgoorlie man accused of kidnapping and bashing a teenage boy has gone on trial at Perth’s District Court.
Michael McKay Starr is one of three men charged with bashing the 17-year-old before tying him up and driving him to bushland outside Kalgoorlie in April last year.
It is alleged the men beat him with several weapons before leaving him lying on the ground, where he was not found until the next morning.
Starr has pleaded not guilty to causing grievous bodily harm, assault occasioning bodily harm, deprivation of liberty and endangering another’s life.
The two other accused men have pleaded guilty to charges arising from their involvement in the incident.
The victim is expected to give evidence today.
A 22-year-old man has pleaded not guilty to a charge of unlawful wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm.
Shane Sullivan is accused of glassing another man during Australia Day celebrations on a Busselton beach.
It is alleged he stabbed a 21-year-old man in the side and face with a broken bottle during an altercation.
Sullivan is due to face court again in June.
The County Court has placed a man accused of a crime spree in central Victoria on a 20-year supervision order.
Police arrested New South Wales man Steven Westlake, 39, in Castlemaine in November 2008.
In the hours leading up to the arrest, police say Westlake used his car to drive over a man and break his legs. He was also accused of assaulting a Country Fire Authority member and stealing his utility.
Westlake pleaded not guilty to six charges because of his mental condition at the time of the offences.
He faced the County Court in Melbourne yesterday and was placed on a non-custodial supervision order.
The order’s conditions will be be reviewed regularly.
Police are still looking for a man after two shots were fired in a confrontation outside a Mildura hotel last night.
The incident happened about 11:40pm (AEST) outside the Gateway Tavern in San Mateo Avenue.
It is believed a man called the victim to his car and fired a shot, then hit the victim with the barrel of the gun.
He suffered minor injuries.
Police say the man pointed the gun towards another man in the area and a second shot was fired but that man was not injured.
Detectives are investigating and want any witnesses to come forward.
Five people have been charged with various offences after a disturbance in the Aboriginal community of Woorabinda in central Queensland.
Police say they were called to the incident just before 6:00am (AEST) yesterday.
A 32-year-old man has been charged with two counts of seriously assaulting police and two counts of assault occasioning bodily harm.
A second man has also been charged with assaulting police.
Two men in balaclavas have attacked a man, 44, in his house at Salisbury East.
Adelaide police say the armed men assaulted the resident in his Austral Street home at 8:00pm on Thursday.
The offenders ran off.
Police say they were Caucasian, about 180 centimetres tall and of medium build.
A 25-year-old Scullin man charged with assault has applied for bail on the grounds that he needs to look after his two dogs.
David John Welch and four co-offenders are accused of assaulting a group of men with a baseball bat, a metal pole and a machete in March.
The court heard the three alleged victims were drinking at a house in Giralang when the group attacked them.
They all suffered head injuries.
Welch’s mother told the ACT Magistrates Court that her son needed to be released from custody so he could look after his two dogs.
She said the older pet frets without him and she would not like to see the dog die while her son was in custody.
In refusing bail, Magistrate Maria Doogan said she was amazed that the application had been made on those grounds and told Welch’s lawyer he had wasted the court’s time.
Police have arrested four teenagers, including two 13-year-olds, over an attack that left a Scottish tourist in a critical condition in Sydney’s south.
Mark Willis, 25, and his girlfriend Jane McLean became involved in an argument with a group of about 10 teenagers after getting off a bus at Rockdale train station around 3:30am AEST yesterday.
Police say Mr Willis was hit in the head a number of times and fell to the ground. He hit his head on the footpath and was knocked unconscious.
The tourist is in a serious but stable condition after undergoing emergency neurosurgery at St George Hospital.
About 3:00pm yesterday, police say they spotted a 13-year-old boy at Hurstville who fit the description of the main attacker. He was arrested and charged with maliciously inflicting grievous bodily harm and affray.
Around 8:30pm, officers arrested two 17-year-old boys and charged them with affray.
Another 13-year-old went to Hurstville Police Station with his parents and was charged with assault and affray.
The four boys were kept in custody overnight to face Parramatta Children’s Court later this morning.
Mr Willis and his girlfriend are halfway through a working holiday from Scotland.
Police say the victim’s parents are preparing to travel to Sydney.
Three teenagers have appeared in a Sunshine Coast court charged over a machete attack at Nambour at the weekend.
Luke John Crew, 18, Rhys Jacob Batten, 17, and a juvenile faced the Maroochydore Magistrates Court yesterday charged with grievous bodily harm.
A man in his 20s is recovering in hospital after suffering serious head injuries in the alleged attack on Magnolia Street on Saturday night.
Crew has been remanded in custody, but Batten and the juvenile, who cannot be named, have been released on bail.
All three are due in court again next month.
Police in Canada say an Australian man has been charged with the sexual assault of a 14-year-old girl.
Officers say Anthony John Porter, 37, has also been charged with using a computer to communicate with a minor for the purpose of committing the offence.
He was arrested last week in Corner Brook, in the Canadian province of Newfoundland.
He is in custody ahead of a bail hearing to be held on Wednesday.
Police are investigating an assault on two children at Mildura yesterday afternoon.
A 10-year-old girl and six-year-old boy were approached by a man near the Caltex service station in Tenth Street, between Walnut and Ontario avenues, at 2:30pm (AEST).
Sergeant Kim Kerr says police are keen to speak to a man and woman in a silver car who helped the children soon after the incident.
“All we have is that it’s four doors, it’s silver and it has a spoiler. Apparently there was a male driver and a female passenger that assisted the children and we believe they may have witnessed the assault and can assist us with those inquiries and possibly a description of the offender,” he said.
Neither of the children were injured.
A 25-year-old man has been charged with assaulting a baby boy at Hervey Bay in south-east Queensland’s Wide Bay region.
Police say the boy suffered head injuries at a home early yesterday.
The man is due to appear in the Hervey Bay Magistrates Court today.
The trial of an Albany man, charged with unlawful assault causing death, has been set down for August.
The prosecution will allege Derrick Graham Loo punched Mark Anthony Fryer outside a home in Spencer Park in 2008.
Mr Fryer hit his head and died in Albany Regional Hospital a short time later.
The trial is scheduled to run over five days.
Two men are being questioned by Newcastle police over the stabbing of a teenager on an overnight train.
Police say a 17-year-old boy was stabbed several times in the chest and robbed of a small amount of cash.
The incident happened just after midnight on a train between Civic and Newcastle stations.
Two men, aged 19 and 21, were arrested and police expect to lay charges later this morning.
A 22-year-old Wagga Wagga man who allegedly held a knife to his partner’s throat in a siege on Good Friday is due to face court tomorrow.
Police say the drama began about 9:30am on Friday when the young man repeatedly punched a woman in the face at their home in suburban Ashmont.
He then led police on a high-speed car chase through several suburbs before officers called off their pursuit due to safety concerns.
A police negotiator was called to the man’s house after he reappeared at the property and allegedly held a boning knife to his partner’s throat.
Shortly before midday the man surrendered to police after letting the woman go.
He is due to face court tomorrow on charges including assault, driving in a dangerous manner and use of a weapon to avoid apprehension.
A man was hurt during a home invasion in Albury last night.
Police say two men forced their way into the man’s Eastern Circuit home at 6:45pm (AEST).
Police say the men covered their faces, produced a knife and demanded money from the 42-year-old victim, before a struggle took place.
The men then fled towards Alexandra Street with cash.
The victim was taken to the Albury Base Hospital with a minor head injury.
Police are appealing for anyone with information to contact them.
An ACT court has heard a mother of two allegedly assaulted by her husband fears he may kill her.
Former Colombian police officer Luis Gutierrez is facing a charge of assault causing bodily harm.
Police told the court the 40-year-old grabbed his wife’s throat and arm several times in their Holt home on Thursday.
Officers say he punched her behind the right ear and called their two children bastards before she fell to the ground and fled the home.
Police submitted photographs of bruising to her neck taken at hospital.
Speaking through a Spanish translator, Gutierrez said his mother-in-law would allow him to stay in her Sydney home.
Chief Magistrate John Burns said he would need demonstrated proof and remanded Gutierrez in custody.
Gutierrez will contest the charges and plead not guilty on Tuesday.
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Payout for protesters locked in shipping container
The South Australian Government has been ordered to pay $724,000 to 10 people involved in a protest at the Beverley uranium mine a decade ago.
The Supreme Court has found the nine uranium protesters and a cameraman were assaulted and all but one falsely imprisoned in a shipping container.
The Government fought the case on behalf of the police officers who arrested the group in the outback.
Eight protesters, the TV cameraman and a girl, 11, sued the Government for assault and false imprisonment over their treatment by police during the protest in May 2000.
Supreme Court Justice Timothy Anderson found police used unnecessary force against all 10, using batons and capsicum spray and locking the nine adults in the container.
He awarded $724,000 but noted it was less than the plaintiffs had sought.
‘Degrading’
Justice Anderson said using the oppressive, degrading and dirty shipping container was a breach of human rights.
He also condemned SA Treasurer Kevin Foley and Police Minister Michael Wright for making antagonistic and provocative comments about the case and the Government for its failure to settle the matter, despite a report by the Police Complaints Authority confirming the use of unnecessary force.
Mr Foley was quoted as calling the group a “bunch of feral protesters”.
The court heard the Government rejected an offer to settle for $600,000 in the weeks before the trial.
Cameraman Jamie Holland says he was held in the container without food, water or a toilet for three hours.
“Inhumane. It shouldn’t happen in Australia. It shouldn’t happen anywhere,” he said.
One of the protesters Lucinda White says Mr Foley was wrong to have made a judgment based on appearance and she is calling for an apology.
“There are real issues here and uranium mining is a really big issue in South Australia,” she said.
“Regardless of how people look they have a right to protest and a right to be safe, not bashed, beaten and falsely imprisoned by the police,” she said.