NSW: Cops who taunted detainee to appeal conviction

AAP General News (Australia)
04-08-2009
NSW: Cops who taunted detainee to appeal conviction

Two policemen sentenced to community service for telling a detainee his girlfriend
was once a man .. will appeal their convictions.

Constables TYRONE STACEY and BRENDAN RITSON were sentenced in the Downing Centre Local
Court yesterday to 125 hours community service for unlawfully disclosing the sensitive
information.

26-year-old GARRICK JACOBSON was in custody at Sydney's Surry Hills police station
in September 2006 .. when the officers accessed his girlfriend's file and told him she
was a transsexual.

The pair pleaded NOT guilty to accessing confidential personal files and will appeal
their convictions in the NSW District Court on May 21.

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KEYWORD: STACEY (SYDNEY)

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