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Ex-NRL ref avoids jail for assaulting Indigenous pupils

Gavin Morris has been handed a suspended sentence for assaulting Indigenous school students. (Colin Whelan/AAP PHOTOS)

A former NRL referee has been spared jail after abusing his position of trust as a school principal by putting Indigenous students into choke holds and painfully twisting their ears.

Gavin Morris was found guilty of four counts of aggravated assault and on Thursday was sentenced to 18 months' imprisonment fully suspended for two years on condition he be of good behaviour.

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