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| Subject: The 'heavy handed OZschwitz nanny state': the drag queen, the constable and the online dating profile Sat Feb 06, 2016 7:46 pm | |
| A Sydney drag queen has found himself centre stage in a major police-harassment scandal after a magistrate threw out the case against him, ruling the NSW Police Force failed to follow the law.
After an image of a Newtown-based police officer temporarily appeared on a gay dating website under the prank profile of "Captain Moonlight", Aaron Manahan found himself charged with using a carriage service to menace, harass and offend.
But when Sydney Local Court heard of the manner in which police had gathered alleged "admissions", including an acknowledgement from a detective senior constable that he was "unaware" of his professional obligations under the Commonwealth Crimes Act, magistrate Janet Wahlquist excluded all evidence as "inadmissable" and dismissed the case.
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/how-a-sydney-drag-queens-pee-behind-a-tree-sparked-a-major-police-harassment-scandal-20160204-gmlsia.html#ixzz3zRG0n3rb |
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