NSW Police Commissioner Andrew Scipione blasts blind-drunk teen ‘monsters’

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Top cop slams monsters' brawl

Source: The Sunday Telegraph


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A young man is treated for facial injuries by paramedics at the scene of last night’s brawl at Darling Harbour. Picture supplied by Channel 7
Source: The Sunday Telegraph


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An ambulance at the scene of last night’s brawl at Darling Harbour. Picture supplied by Channel 7
Source: The Sunday Telegraph


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Not impressed: NSW Police Commissioner Andrew Scipione says alcohol turns youngsters into ‘monsters’. Picture: Craig Greenhill
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Seven teenagers have been arrested after a school formal has ended in a brawl at Sydney’s Darling Harbour.








POLICE Commissioner Andrew Scipione has lashed out at the alcohol abuse that turned a Year 11 formal into a drunken, bloody brawl involving 130 teenagers.


In a scathing attack on a night of madness in Darling Harbour, he blasted: “It’s the same old formula. Just add grog and they turn into monsters.

“Unfortunately this love affair with alcohol sees people behave in a way that is completely out of control and police are left to clean up the mess.”

Drunken teens turned the National Maritime Museum into a bloody battlefield as students from Killarney Heights High School fought a running battle with gangs from Glebe and Waterloo.

Friday’s celebration, organised by parents of students at the school, was supposedly “alcohol-free”.

But instead, police were confronted by up to 130 “intoxicated young people” who spilled out of the venue and tangled with a gang of local youths waiting outside.

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In the wash-up, which left three teens in hospital and seven arrested by police, The Sunday Telegraph reveals many of the students were too drunk to be interviewed by police.

It can also be revealed that:

A police licensing probe will be launched to determine how the teens got the alcohol.

A code of silence among students frustrated police efforts to investigate the incident.

Another school formal organised by Freshwater High was also ruined when students vandalised their harbour cruise and were booted off the boat.

Commissioner Scipione said: “Who supplies under-age people with alcohol? Do parents know what their children are up to?

“They need to take a look at themselves too. When you have had too much to drink, you can easily find yourself becoming a victim of crime as well as doing something you might later regret.”

The night of high drama saw police shut down the Killarney Heights event, culminating in the arrest of seven teens aged between 14 and 17.

Police were forced into a midnight scramble to find parents or “responsible adults” to oversee police interviews at Surry Hills police station and escort youths home.

The seven teenagers arrested were later released without charge, pending further investigations.

Read more at the Daily Telegraph.

 

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