NSW woman to receive $18,000 after police looking into suspected Covid protest trespassed on property
by Tamsin Rose from World news | The Guardian on (#68PEC)
Sanchia Romani awarded damages after officers ignored her no trespassing' signs in August 2021
The New South Wales government has been ordered to pay out more than $18,000 after two police officers climbed a locked gate and trespassed on a northern rivers property owned by a woman they suspected was organising a protest in breach of Covid laws.
NSW supreme court justice Robertson Wright found the senior constables had violated the privacy of property owner Sanchia Romani and her family in 2021, and their high-handed" dealings caused the residents anxiety and distress.
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