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court reporter Meagan Dillon

Police officer found guilty of hitting teenager in face has assault conviction quashed

Andrew Allan Jaunay will face a retrial after an assault conviction was quashed. (ABC News: Evelyn Manfield)

A Supreme Court judge has quashed an assault conviction for a former South Australian police officer because a magistrate made several mistakes stemming from an audio recording of the decade-old incident.

In March 2022, police officer Andrew Allan Jaunay was handed a three-month fully suspended sentence over the 2013 assault of then-17-year-old Matthew Odgers at Whyalla.

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