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Police in court over prison ra
TWO Queensland police officers are set to face court today charged with raping female prisoners at a watchhouse.
The two long-serving Sunshine Coast-based officers will face Maroochydore Magistrates Court on 32 charges including sexual assault, rape and deprivation of liberty.
Police allege the officers, who cannot be named for legal reasons, gave cigarettes to three females in custody at the watchhouse and allowed them out of the cells in return for sexual favours.
The incidents allegedly happened between January and December last year.
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New Zealand Herald - New Zeala
14 June 2007
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Grisly evidence in police cust
The trial of an Australian police officer over the death of an Aborigine in custody will be a benchmark in black justice, aboriginal leaders say.
The trial underway in Townsville on Australia's northeast coast has heard gruesome details that Aborigine Mulrunji Doomadgee's liver was "virtually cleaved in two" during a struggle with the officer.
Senior Police Sergeant Chris Hurley has pleaded not guilty to the unlawful assault and manslaughter of Doomadgee in a police station on Palm Island, off the coast of Queensland, in November 2004. Local Aborigines rioted after the death, destroying the police station and a police barracks was destroyed on Palm Island, which has a history of disadvantage since being used as a resettlement site for "disruptive" Aborigines last century.
Aboriginal leaders have welcomed the trial, the first into an Aboriginal death in custody for decades. "Aboriginal people feel it's been a long hard road. The justice structure has certainly failed Mulrunji's family up to now, but it's finally happening," Socialist Alliance indigenous spokesman Sam Watson said.
Doomadgee's liver was "cleaved in two" and he bled to death after Hurley deliberately used "massive compressive force, probably by using his knee", during a scuffle, prosecutor Peter Davies told Townsville court.
Hurley arrested Doomadgee, 36, for being drunk and swearing in a public place. He died an hour afterwards with four broken ribs and a punctured liver. Hurley, who says he landed beside Doomadgee in a fall, was cleared by Queensland's deputy public prosecutor, but charged later following an inquiry and public outcry.
The incident raised questions about Australia's commitment to recommendations of an independent inquiry set up in the late 1980s after a string of aboriginal deaths in jail. Only one group of five police have faced court before and were acquitted in 1984 in Western Australia.
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