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Twenty gay men bashed daily: NSW inquiry

NSW Police Asst Commissioner Anthony Crandell tells inquiry gay bashers were given a social licence. (Jeremy Piper/AAP PHOTOS) (AAP)

Assistant NSW police commissioner Anthony Crandell has told a landmark inquiry about 20 gay men were violently bashed every day for a period spanning more than four decades.

The special commission of inquiry, in its second block of hearings, is probing the police approach to suspected hate crimes against LGBTQI people between 1970 and 2010.

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