Serious crime dealt with Oz style
Oct 21st 2004, 11:37 pm
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Serious crime dealt with Oz style
Sick and tired of nanny state Britain and the 2nd rate thugs shoved into cheap unifiorms as security types?
No wonder Australia is the destination of choice, the laid back lifestyle awaits the lucky poms who make it here.
Just do not smoke a fag int a public place.
The train guard from hell
By VIVA GOLDNER
October 22, 2004
A TRANSIT officer was branded "poorly trained or vindictively violent" by a magistrate yesterday after he crash-tackled and handcuffed a passenger.
Mick Onur had just got off a train at Wollongong station when he was "crash-tackled", handcuffed and held face down by transit officer Alan Nassau and three other officers armed with batons.
The pair had clashed physically seven days earlier at Sutherland station when Mr Onur was accused of smoking on the platform.
Mr Onur was charged with intimidation and using offensive language.
Magistrate Jennifer Giles turned the tables when Mr Onur appeared at Sutherland Local Court yesterday.
She threw out the charges against Mr Onur, saying he was the victim of a vindictive and violent attack.
She said the 39-year-old suffered "physical and emotional meltdown".
Mr Nassau had claimed he used a "risk management strategy" to tackle Mr Onur.
Magistrate Giles disagreed.
"This violence was ordered by someone who doesn't have the power of arrest," she said.
"It is difficult to know whether Mr Nassau is poorly trained or vindictively violent.
"At least four of these officers crash-tackled Mr Onur at Wollongong station.
"The euphemisms about taking him by the wrist were clearly lies.
"Such dreadful things have happened to him . . . Mr Onur has a legitimate defence to uttering expletives."
The magistrate said testimony Mr Onur was "struggling, kicking out" was contradicted by CCTV footage.
She rejected evidence from transit officer Eden Findley that Mr Nassau and another guard, Claire Appleby, used a "text book, take-down move".
She granted Mr Onur an apprehended violence order against Mr Nassau.
Outside the court, Mr Onur's lawyer Sam Macedone said his client had been vindicated after eight months of suffering.
A RailCorp spokesman defended Mr Nassau's action and said an appeal against the AVO would be considered.
"Transit officers are able to use batons to protect themselves or others from injury. The transit officer's baton was drawn but not used," the spokesman said.
"The transit officer was threatened. The transit officer was told by the passenger he was going to kill him."
http://dailytelegraph.news.com.au/st...toryid=2123631
No wonder Australia is the destination of choice, the laid back lifestyle awaits the lucky poms who make it here.
Just do not smoke a fag int a public place.
The train guard from hell
By VIVA GOLDNER
October 22, 2004
A TRANSIT officer was branded "poorly trained or vindictively violent" by a magistrate yesterday after he crash-tackled and handcuffed a passenger.
Mick Onur had just got off a train at Wollongong station when he was "crash-tackled", handcuffed and held face down by transit officer Alan Nassau and three other officers armed with batons.
The pair had clashed physically seven days earlier at Sutherland station when Mr Onur was accused of smoking on the platform.
Mr Onur was charged with intimidation and using offensive language.
Magistrate Jennifer Giles turned the tables when Mr Onur appeared at Sutherland Local Court yesterday.
She threw out the charges against Mr Onur, saying he was the victim of a vindictive and violent attack.
She said the 39-year-old suffered "physical and emotional meltdown".
Mr Nassau had claimed he used a "risk management strategy" to tackle Mr Onur.
Magistrate Giles disagreed.
"This violence was ordered by someone who doesn't have the power of arrest," she said.
"It is difficult to know whether Mr Nassau is poorly trained or vindictively violent.
"At least four of these officers crash-tackled Mr Onur at Wollongong station.
"The euphemisms about taking him by the wrist were clearly lies.
"Such dreadful things have happened to him . . . Mr Onur has a legitimate defence to uttering expletives."
The magistrate said testimony Mr Onur was "struggling, kicking out" was contradicted by CCTV footage.
She rejected evidence from transit officer Eden Findley that Mr Nassau and another guard, Claire Appleby, used a "text book, take-down move".
She granted Mr Onur an apprehended violence order against Mr Nassau.
Outside the court, Mr Onur's lawyer Sam Macedone said his client had been vindicated after eight months of suffering.
A RailCorp spokesman defended Mr Nassau's action and said an appeal against the AVO would be considered.
"Transit officers are able to use batons to protect themselves or others from injury. The transit officer's baton was drawn but not used," the spokesman said.
"The transit officer was threatened. The transit officer was told by the passenger he was going to kill him."
http://dailytelegraph.news.com.au/st...toryid=2123631
