New Zealand police have criticised the non-custodial sentence handed down to the teenage son of a multimillionaire who beat a police officer unconscious during a drunken rage. Nikolas Delegat, 19, the son of wine magnate Jakov Delegat, attacked Constable Alana Kane in Dunedin in March last year. The assault was so severe Kane took two months off work and remains on light duties. Although it was his first offence and his victim did not want to press charges, Kingi was sentenced to five months in jail for the assault. The sentence was overturned only after a leading lawyer working for free appealed against the sentence.

Source: The Guardian September 14, 2016 09:11 UTC