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$125,000 payout for reinstated police sergeant defamed by Murdoch newspaper

A former Tasmanian police officer who was reinstated after being unfairly dismissed for engaging in out of hours oral sex in a public place has been awarded $125,000 in damages after a successful defamation action against the publishers, editor and journalists of News Limited's Hobart newspaper, The Mercury.

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