Acting Sergeant Beau Barrett, 37, may need to wait months before he faces trial for a “sling tackle” at Melbourne’s Flinders Street Station last year that left Daniel Peterson-English allegedly with facial injuries and unconscious.
The Melbourne Magistrates Court held a three-day committal hearing after Acting Sergeant Barrett was charged with assault and recklessly causing injury.
In September 2021, footage emerged on social media showing Peterson-English speaking to three uniformed police officers at Flinders Street Station before a fourth police officer, Barrett, can be seen walking up behind him, grabbing him around the upper torso, and then throwing him (in a “sling tackle”) to the ground face-first….