Drunk man put finger up policewoman's bottom

An Australian man who put his finger up a female police officer's bottom was jailed for nine months in Townsville District Court, but walked free after the judge took into account time served. Nathaniel Solomon Wailu, 27, pleaded guilty to serious assault and obstructing police after a drunken incident on November 19 last year.

Crown prosecutor Andrew Lowrie told the court police were called to a Garbutt lodge where Wailu was causing a disturbance. Mr Lowrie said the female constable who was assaulted told Wailu she was accompanying his mother so she could retrieve property she had left in his unit. "At one point the accused walked behind the complainant ... (who) then felt a forceful and sudden poke from the accused's finger between the cheeks of her buttocks," he said.



"The complainant then jumped in shock and turned around and pushed the accused away, telling him not to touch her." Defence barrister Wayne Pennell told the court his client was intoxicated when he assaulted the officer. "When he sobered up ... he realised he'd done a stupid thing," he said. "In his words he felt 'really bad' about what he'd done."

Judge John Baulch SC gave Wailu a piece of his mind before ordering immediate parole on a nine-month jail term given he had been in custody since the offence. "Police must be respected as they go about the performance of their duties," he told Wailu. "It's hard to imagine a more disrespectful thing than what you did to the officer on that day."