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Steven Wallace Shooting Inquest Delayed Again
The Coroner's Inquest into the police shooting of Waitara student Steven Wallace has been further delayed till September at the earliest.
Architecture student Steven Wallace was shot by police in the early hours of April 30th last year by a police officer identified publicly only as Constable A.
Delivering his decision, reserved following a hearing on May 21, Coroner Gordon Matenga said he was satisfied that their may be some prejudice to the police officers involved in the shooting if the inquest were to go ahead immediately.
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Alastair Thompson is the co-founder of Scoop. He is of Scottish and Irish extraction and from Wellington, New Zealand. Alastair has 24 years experience in the media, at the Dominion, National Business Review, North & South magazine, Straight Furrow newspaper and online since 1997. He is the winner of several journalism awards for business and investigative work.
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