15 Dec 2020

Ex-rugby coach sentenced for assault with pool cue

From Checkpoint, 5:20 pm on 15 December 2020

Warning: The details of this report may be distressing for some listeners.

A former rugby coach from South Otago has escaped jail after severely injuring a young man by penetrating him with a pool cue.

Instead Benjamin Roger Keach will pay his victim emotional harm reparation and serve a sentence of community detention.

Our Otago-Southland reporter, Timothy Brown, was in court and filed this report.