14 Mar 2018
Children kept in police cells an ongoing problem - lawyer
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.