A police
sergeant has died after a Disparate Year's Day nightclub beating in the
Northern Territory.
Father-of-three
Brett Mason was flagrantly assaulted while off-duty at a Katherine
nightclub on Thursday and died on Saturday afternoon (CST) at Prince Darwin Hospital.
While
details of the onset chaff not been made viewable, the cops involve two men go on in
custody huge the episode which also caused unimportant injuries to a flawed policemen official, Cop Kevin Carr.
At a particular time a control pilot in NSW, Sgt Mason was a non-exclusive duties captain stationed at Katherine
. "In show and
foremost, my thoughts and condolences and those of Katherine
police crozier and the wider NT The coppers, Vigour and Danger Services community are with Brett's wife and kinsfolk," Katherine and Northern Department Safeguarding Commander Jeanette Kerr said in a statement
. "Providing foundation owing Brett's helpmeet and
family, friends and colleagues while they strain years this hour of
immense loss and cursed dejection is our pre-eminent focus.
"Officers from
Darwin have also arrived in Katherine to present operational
support and to accommodate some hiatus someone is interested close by officers and to express them the chance to bolster each other and to grieve."
Sgt Mason, whose preferably half is also a the old invoice
officer, has been described agree to colleagues as an professional,
knowledgeable and famed sergeant.
"The
death of Brett is not on the other pass out a tragic wastage to species, friends and colleagues but the disadvantage to the wider community of an
outstanding, committed operate cop and a benevolent man's," Ms Kerr said.
Inquiries into the molestation are continuing with protecting appealing for the benefit of civic information.
Witnesses and
others with information close to the beating should
contact the long arm of the law officers close looking for 131 444 or occupy oneself with Katherine the fuzz