law
14 Mar 2018

Children kept in police cells an ongoing problem - lawyer

From Morning Report, 7:47 am on 14 March 2018

A lawyer representing a fifteen-year-old boy who was held for six nights in police custody, says that's too long. John Sandston says it's the longest he's ever heard of a child being held in custody, though the process was entirely illegal. He says the only way to stop it happening with increasing frequency is to make it illegal under the Oranga Tamariki Act. He talks to Guyon Espiner.