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Prison officer found to have assaulted inmate
By stuff.co.nz
Published: 01/19/2010

An assault on a difficult inmate may cost one of Hawke's Bay's longest-serving prison officers his job.

Yesterday in Hastings District Court, Judge Richard Watson found that William Pakoti, 56, of Hastings, had assaulted Elfender-Lee Harmer, whom the judge described as a "very angry, persistent and difficult inmate".

But he agreed not to enter a conviction pending an application to be made by defence lawyer Tony Snell, and Pakoti was remanded on bail for sentence on February 3.

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