Hannah Thomas: NSW police drop charges against former Greens candidate who plans to sue force over prosecution | New South Wales
Hannah Thomas, who was arrested in a Sydney protest in June, filed a lawsuit against the new Southern South Wales Police after he dropped all the charges against the former Greens candidate.
Thomas was arrested and on June 27, Mr. The 35 -year -old was taken to hospital and had two rounds of surgery in his right eye, and his lawyers claimed that a police officer punched him in his face.
On Tuesday, at the Bankstown Local Court, he had stopped three charges against the Public Prosecutor’s Office Office Thomas. One of the accusations included an emergency power that was rarely introduced after the 2005 Cronulla rebellions.
Thomas’s lawyer Peter O’Brien told journalists other than the court, his team will file a civilian lawsuit against the NSW state in the high court.
The NSW police will argue that the police follow a malicious prosecution, and Thomas’s attack and battery victim by the police, the abuse of the process and that it is malicious in the office.
“Charges [against Thomas] From the very beginning, it could not be clearly sustained and as a result, they retreated. And that’s probably a long time ago, O’brien said.
Thomas, who spoke with reporters outside the court with his lawyers, said he was relieved, but the fall of charges was “far from justice”.
Prime Minister Chris criticized Minns for claiming that “Draconian” put into force the anti-anti-anti-en-eni laws.
“That four other protesters from the SE Covering action that morning face unfair charges that should never be brought,” Thomas said.
“They also deserve justice.”
Thomas claimed that he was not guilty of three charges: Resisting the police, not complying with the direction of action, and refusing to obey the direction of disintegration or fail.
The four protesters accused of Thomas claimed that he was not guilty of various charges of his protests and arrests.
“The police were not held to take into account his behavior that day,” Thomas said on Tuesday.
“My fist was just one example of the police savagery that morning. The actions of every police in this protest should be reviewed.
“It took two days to blame me, but 73 days later, the male police officer who punched me with enough power to open my right -hand global was not accused.”
Days after Thomas’s arrest, Deputy Commissioner Brett McFadden said that he was watching the video worn in the body. “At this stage, there is no information that shows any abuse before me”.
The arrest of Thomas was declared a critical incident by the police, which means that the independent police observer would supervise the investigation.
Authorized, protests with Israel, “as long as the Albanian government continues to trade two -way weapons,” he said.
“In the suburbs in this country, weapons are still used by the province of Israel to kill for more than 700 days every day in Gaza.”
For a comment, NSW was contacted.
