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ABC News
3 hours ago
- ABC News
SA Police officer found not guilty of 'tickling' woman's bottom
A senior police officer has been found not guilty of aggravated indecent assault for "tickling" the buttock of a woman he worked with from another agency — but could have been found guilty of common assault, a court has found. The 62-year-old officer was accused of touching the woman's bottom over her clothing but he was found not guilty after a trial in the Magistrates Court. An appeal against his acquittal has also been dismissed by the Supreme Court. In a published judgement by the higher court, Justice Laura Stein noted the magistrate who presided over the trial had "concluded the defendant's conduct amounted to assault, but stated that the defendant did not face that charge" and therefore found the defendant not guilty. She said that prosecutors had not laid a common assault charge as an alternative to aggravated indecent assault, and did not open nor close their case on the basis the officer could be convicted of the lesser charge if indecency was not established. Justice Stein noted in her ruling that the magistrate was "satisfied beyond reasonable doubt that the tickling of [her] left buttock was deliberate". However, she noted the magistrate did not find the alleged aggravated features proved and while the woman "should not have been subject to unwanted touching" the magistrate "could not be satisfied beyond reasonable doubt that the element of indecency was proved". The judgement notes there was no suggestion of any flirting behaviour by the officer, and that "the touch was not accompanied by any comment or other behaviour". "In the circumstances, the magistrate could not draw an inference that the defendant intended to gain sexual gratification or cause sexual humiliation". "It was just as likely the conduct was a joke or an ill-conceived gesture," she said in the judgement. According to the judgement, the incident was captured on CCTV and showed the officer had his fingers "curled" and that the "movement of his fingers was consistent with a tickling motion". Justice Stein noted the magistrate also found the woman was "an impressive witness" who was "credible and reliable" but "rejected" the officer's evidence. The judgement said the woman had told police she was holding open a door for the officer in 2022 when she felt the "tickling movement", which had "made her angry as he had no permission to touch her". "The magistrate was satisfied beyond reasonable doubt from [the woman's] evidence and the video footage that the defendant touched [her] left buttock in a tickling fashion," the judgement said. She reiterated the magistrate's comments that "the behaviour was harassing, unacceptable, inappropriate and should not have occurred". The Commissioner of Police appealed against the officer's acquittal, but Justice Stein said the magistrate "did not err" in articulating the elements of the offence, or in failing to convict the officer of assault. "I am not persuaded that the magistrate was wrong in failing to do so given the manner in which the trial was conducted." Justice Stein also said the principles of double jeopardy justified the Supreme Court also declining to convict the officer on an assault charge. A spokesperson for SA Police said the service had "robust" internal investigations procedures that are "independently overseen", but would "provide no further comment".
9 News
6 hours ago
- 9 News
Netanyahu says he'll push ahead with Gaza City takeover and renewed ceasefire talks
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he will give final approval for the takeover of Gaza City while also restarting negotiations with Hamas aimed at returning all of Israel's remaining hostages and ending the war on Israel's terms. The wide-scale operation in Gaza City could start within days after Netanyahu grants final approval at a meeting with senior security officials. Hamas said earlier this week that it had agreed to a ceasefire proposal from Arab mediators, which, if accepted by Israel, could forestall the offensive. READ MORE: Growing condemnation as Israel begins offensive on Gaza City Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a press conference at the Prime minister's office in Jerusalem, Sunday, Aug. 10, 2025. (Abir Sultan/Pool Photo via AP) (AP) The Israeli military began calling medical officials and international organisations in the northern Gaza Strip to encourage them to evacuate to the south ahead of the expanded operation. The military plans to call up 60,000 reservists and extend the service of 20,000 more. Israeli strikes killed at least 36 Palestinians across Gaza on Thursday, according to local hospitals. A renewed offensive could bring even more casualties and displacement to the territory, where the war has already killed tens of thousands and where experts have warned of imminent famine. Many Israelis fear it could also doom the remaining 20 or so living hostages taken by Hamas-led militants in the October 7, 2023 attack that ignited the war. READ MORE: Australian officials pulled out of West Bank after Israel revokes visas The mother of Mohammed Al-Sukni, centre, who was killed while trying to reach aid trucks, is comforted by relatives outside Shifa Hospital, before his funeral in Gaza City, Thursday, Aug. 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi) Gaza City operation could begin in days During a visit to the military's Gaza command in southern Israel, Netanyahu said he would approve the army's plans to retake Gaza City, and had instructed officials "to begin immediate negotiations on the release of all our hostages and an end to the war on terms acceptable to Israel." "These two things — defeating Hamas and releasing all our hostages — go hand in hand," he said. It appeared to mark Israel's first public response to the latest ceasefire proposal drawn up by Egypt and Qatar, which Egyptian and Hamas officials say is almost identical to an earlier one that Israel accepted before the talks stalled last month . The proposal would include the release of some of the hostages in exchange for Palestinians imprisoned by Israel, a pullback of Israeli forces and negotiations over a more lasting ceasefire. A Palestinian boy walks amid debris after Israeli military strikes in a tent camp for displaced people near Al-Aqsa Hospital, in Deir al-Balah, Thursday, August 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi) Israeli troops have already begun more limited operations in the city's Zeitoun neighbourhood and the built-up Jabaliya refugee camp, areas where they have carried out several previous major operations over the course of the war, only to see militants later regroup. The military says it plans to operate in areas where ground troops have not yet entered and where it says Hamas still has military and governing capabilities. So far, there has been little sign of Palestinians fleeing en masse, as they did when Israel carried out an earlier offensive in Gaza City in the opening weeks of the war. The military says it controls around 75 per cent of Gaza and residents say nowhere in the territory feels safe. This satellite photo from Planet Labs PBC shows the northern reaches of Gaza City and Jabaliya in the Gaza Strip Wednesday, August 20, 2025. (Planet Labs PBC via AP) Hundreds gathered for a rare protest in Gaza City on Thursday against the war and Israel's plans to support the mass relocation of Palestinians to other countries. Women and children held placards reading "Save Gaza" and "Stop the war, stop the savage attack, save us", against a backdrop of destroyed buildings as Palestinian music played. Unlike in previous protests, there were no expressions of opposition to Hamas. "We want the war on Gaza to stop. We don't want to migrate. Twenty-two months … it's enough. Enough death. Enough destruction," said Bisan Ghazal, a woman displaced from Gaza City. Israeli soldiers prepare tanks on August 18 near the Gaza Strip's northern border. (via CNN Newsource) Protests in Israel In Israel, families of some of the 50 hostages still being held in Gaza gathered in Tel Aviv to condemn the expanded operation. Israel believes around 20 hostages are still alive. "Forty-two hostages were kidnapped alive and murdered in captivity due to military pressure and delay in signing a deal," said Dalia Cusnir, whose brother-in-law, Eitan Horn, is still being held captive. Eitan's brother, Iair Horn, was released during a ceasefire earlier this year. "Enough to sacrifice the hostages. Enough to sacrifice the soldiers, both regular and reservists. Enough to sacrifice the evacuees. Enough to sacrifice the younger generation in the country," said Bar Goddard, the daughter of Meni Goddard, whose body is being held by Hamas. Additional protests are planned for Thursday night in Tel Aviv. Palestinian women check the destruction after Israeli military strikes in a tent camp for displaced people near Al-Aqsa Hospital, in Deir al-Balah, Thursday, August 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi) Plans for widening the offensive have also sparked international outrage, with many of Israel's closest Western allies — but not the United States — calling on it to end the war. "I must reiterate that it is vital to reach immediately a ceasefire in Gaza, and the unconditional release of all hostages to avoid the massive death and destruction that a military operation against Gaza City would inevitably cause," United Nations chief António Guterres said at a conference in Japan. The Gaza Health Ministry said on Thursday that at least 62,192 Palestinians have been killed in the war. Another two people have died from malnutrition-related causes, bringing the total number of such deaths to 271, including 112 children, the Health Ministry said. The ministry is part of the Hamas-run government and staffed by medical professionals. It does not say whether those killed by Israeli fire are civilians or combatants, but it says around half are women and children. The UN and many independent experts consider its figures to be the most reliable estimate of wartime casualties. Israel disputes its toll but has not provided its own. Hamas-led militants started the war when they attacked Israel on October 7, 2023, killing some 1200 people, mostly civilians, and abducting 251. Most of the hostages have been released in ceasefires or other deals. Hamas says it will only free the rest in exchange for a lasting ceasefire and an Israeli withdrawal.
Herald Sun
13 hours ago
- Herald Sun
Supreme Court hears of horror killing in the name of God
Mark Buttler and Andrew Rule with their weekly dose of scallywag scuttlebutt. In the same week that Victorians woke to news of a horrific alleged beheading murder, a court has heard details about the delusional teenagers accused of murdering the mother of one of them in a plot to take over Australia. The 41-year-old woman was bludgeoned with a cricket bat and stabbed and cut 98 times in the attack carried out by her son, then 15, and his school friend, 14, in April 2023. The killing was the first part of a plan they called 'Operation Continuity', which involved stealing a car to drive to the Grampians where the pair planned to 'raise an army to kill communists' and reclaim Australia to restore Christian values. The woman's son has already pleaded guilty to murder and jailed for a maximum of 15 years. But his co-accused pleaded not guilty on grounds of mental impairment and faced a Supreme Court hearing last Wednesday to determine if he is fit to be tried. For once, expert witnesses were in furious agreement: forensic psychiatrists for both the defence and the prosecution said the boy had untreated schizophrenia and was experiencing paranoid and grandiose delusions at the time. No shocks there. One of the psychiatrists reported the teen believed he was a prophet of God who would die if he failed to complete certain tasks, and took religious meaning from song lyrics. Similar experts will no doubt be heard in proceedings against the homeless dog lover accused of the Mt Waverley double murder when his time comes. Cops annoy millionaire vape marketeers It's hard to imagine a more profitable and blatant flouting of the law than the way Victoria's illicit tobacco and vape pirates are getting away with millions, not to mention arson and murder. In the case of vapes, poorly resourced authorities are expected to enforce a public health-based national ban which seems to have done nothing to cut consumption but has done plenty to supercharge some of our most powerful and dangerous criminals. An example came last week when the Therapeutic Goods Administration, with help from Victoria Police, turned over a CBD kiosk ostensibly selling lollies but actually flogging vapes. Officials seized 40,000 vapes, illicit tobacco and cash from the business, operating in one of the city's most visible locations. A good result? Not if you consider that the shop has been sitting there unloading thousands upon thousands of vapes for a long time, meaning it probably paid for itself long before the raid. And it's far from the only one. Across Melbourne, shops selling vapes openly advertise the fact as consumers vote with their wallets. The vape prohibition and measures designed to cut smoking rates appear to have no effect, apart from driving billions of dollars into the pockets of organised crime figures. One organised crime investigator tells Deadline that Victoria's looming assault on the illicit tobacco and vape trade will be 'pissing in the wind' unless and until law enforcers get the power to shut shops. Geelong Johnny puts up his dukes There was much mirth from AFL fans earlier in the season at the creaky running action of a Kardinia Park security man looking after Bulldogs coach Luke Beveridge. When Beveridge broke into a canter after his exchange of words with Channel Seven's Kane Cornes down at Geelong, his shadow looked like a man sorely in need of off-season knee surgery. Later, he was the subject of more derision when social media lit up over his alleged strong resemblance to American porn star Johnny Sins. Well, it turns out 'Geelong Johnny' can actually take care of business when necessary. We're assured that it was he who saved the day in Geelong earlier this month when a Melbourne man went on a rampage and attacked five women in separate nasty assaults during a 90-minute rampage from the CBD to Rippleside. The security man was out walking his dog when the agitated-looking alleged attacker appeared, being tailed by a bloke he'd earlier had a crack at. 'Geelong Johnny' decided to approach the suspect who apparently took a couple of swings. Our man defied his apparent knee problems and dropped the fellow with some fancy moves, holding him down until police arrived. Our sources down that way say there's no doubt those actions saved others from being knocked about, or worse. Police have charged a 39-year-old man over attacks on victims completely unknown to him. Back when householders shot back It's 30 years ago this week since a legitimate sporting shooter was cleared of shooting an alleged burglar, saying he would do it again if his life were threatened. Lawrence Morris, then 53, of Armadale, said he planned to get his shooter's licence back following the welcome verdict in the County Court. 'If someone threatens to kill me again, they'll get hurt … If somebody breaks into my house and threatens to kill me, I am going to defend myself,' Mr Morris said. At the time, there was a lot of public, political and police sentiment against this stand. Now that home invasions and violent car thefts are a nightly occurrence, maybe the Lawrie Morris approach might have the silent majority on side anywhere outside the latte belt. Police and politicians (in government) then, as now, are obliged to warn people against taking the law into their own hands. Still, no prizes for guessing what most police would do if someone broke into their houses brandishing weapons. All the surrendered guns that didn't make it to the smelter since the big buyback after 1996 have to be somewhere: interesting models that made it past the front desk often went out the back door. Morris, a former executive of the Sporting Shooters Association, was found not guilty of charges arising from the shooting of convicted burglar Peter Blake at a Malvern house. 'The police say that I should either phone them or run out the back door,' Morris said after his court victory. 'I do not believe that is a practical course of action if someone is inside your house.' Meanwhile, the burglar with bullet holes said getting shot had torn his family apart as well as his belly, but he would 'forgive' the man who stopped him in his tracks. 'My seven-year-old son can't understand why the man who shot daddy is not going to be punished,' he said, 'and I can't explain that either.' Burglar Blake, whose intestines were seriously rearranged in the shooting, said one of the hardest things to accept was the permanent disability he had suffered. But he gracefully conceded there was no point at being angry with the man who legitimately shot him, nor angry with the judicial system even though it seemed that his prior convictions had somewhat turned the jury against him. What a guy: a forgiving, philosophical thief.
