Article: Vic: Police award recipient still seeks compo


AAP General News (Australia)
07-27-2001
Vic: Police award recipient still seeks compo

Victorian police officer JASON STRIEGHER is receiving an award for bravery today, but
says he'd also like to be receiving full compensation for being shot.

His Police Valour Medal follows a confrontation with a gunman who shot him in the stomach
in 1999.

Senior Constable STRIEGHER had the misfortune to be shot at a time when his right to
sue for compensation had been withdrawn by the KENNETT government

Premier STEVE BRACKS has since restored the right to seek ...

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