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Police officer fined for assault
An Auckland police
officer convicted of assaulting a handcuffed man could remain on the beat. Constable Greg Hall has
been fined $2,750 and been ordered to pay court costs after he was found
guilty of punching Hayden Seath more than four times in the back of a patrol
car in November 2000. Seath had been arrested
for disorderly behaviour in an Albany pub carpark. On Wednesday the judge
said Seath should not be compensated because he had broken Hall's nose while
resisting arrest. In sentencing the judge
said it was not inevitable that Hall should lose his job. That is now subject
to an internal police inquiry. |
