Kids to sue over Vic SOGy drug raid

[F420]

Kids to sue over Vic SOGy drug raid

 

A six-year-old girl and her teenage brother are suing a corrupt former detective over a police raid where machineguns were allegedly pointed in their faces.

 

The children and partner of Victorian Bandidos motorcycle club member Robert Kim Sloan have lodged County Court writs accusing police of assault, battery and inducing fear.

 

The March 2000 raid on Mr Sloan's Geelong house led to him being sentenced to more than four years' jail on drugs charges. Mr Sloan had argued during his trial that the drugs, which were found during the third search of his house, were planted by police.

 

After spending five months behind bars, Mr Sloan was released and his conviction quashed after the arrest of one of the officers involved in the raid, former drug squad detective Stephen Paton.

 

Paton has since been jailed for drug trafficking.

 

Mr Sloan's children and partner have joined him in launching claims for compensation over the raid and for the time he spent in prison.

 

In County Court documents Latia Sloan, who was one month short of her second birthday at the time of the raid, alleges she was confronted by heavily armed Special Operations Group officers.

 

She was threatened with a gun, commands were shouted at her, and despite crying, she was detained and deprived of the comfort of her mother, the writ states.

 

Latia Sloan is suing via her legal guardian, her mother, Karen Gray. She is seeking damages for emotional distress from the raid and psychological damage from her separation from her father while he was in jail.

 

She is claiming damages from Paton, two other detectives and the State of Victoria.

 

In a separate writ Mr Sloan's teenage son, Martin, aged 14 at the time of the raid, is seeking damages on the same grounds as his sister.

 

Both children allege the SOG used excessive force.

 

The civil actions are not expected to be heard in court until next year.

[WantDaChronic]

any ideas on what happened ???

 

IMO if the police are going to bust a someone the least they could do is walk upto the door with say 15 other piggers hand the warrent over and say look we are aware there could be children in the house so hows about u grab your family and wait out the front while we search the house???

 

sure it would give the police a chance to plant something and what not but it would definately make the police look better in the publics eyes and would also throw anything like an excessive force charge right out the window....IMO there is no need for them to bash a door down and come storm trooping in, hell if someone bashed my door down i would hide behind it untill i saw a arm, grab it and twist it then brake the stupid fucks arm in half using my elbow.....dont know if i would get away with it but if anyone breaks into my house their lifes are in their own hands police are probably aware that most people think this way so why not be all peacefull about it? :scratchin

[Pickle]

When i was a kid, we had a person staying at our house as a visitor who was wanted on federal charges (we didn't know). The Feds watched the house, bugged the phone, followed us everywhere and had the whole neighborhood pinned down under surveilance.

 

They decided beforehand as there were kids in the house they would make the arrests and detain my parents while we weren't around. It ended up they took the adults out of a restaraunt at about 5:00pm and kept my parents untill 3:00am and the visitors until the next afternoon and one of the visitors (the guilty party) wasn't let out at all.

 

Now we weren't around in the middle of the bust which invloved all sorts of guns but we were left on our own without a clue about where our parents were until they got home in the middle of the night. While not the best way to handle things, we never saw a gun, a cop or our parents being thrown down and taken away but there was no one there to take care of us either. We got home from school and didn't see our parents until well after they were supposed to be home, which was very unusual as we were quite young at this stage.

 

If you are a professional cop you should have this sort of thing worked out before you drop your shit in the middle of a families lives.

 

I hope this family gets millions.

[WantDaChronic]

damn that would have to suck :thumbdown

 

I hope this family gets millions.

 

so do i...i hope they get that much they are forced to close down the drug force or fire 1000's of piggers ::