You would accept, wouldn’t you, that where somebody has issued you with two threats - albeit in very quick succession - that they’re going to kill you whilst you’re in your car, for you to then get out of the car and approach them and raise your stick, that that would be perceived by the person who’s making the threats, as aggressive.
When I say ‘raise’ he wasn’t raise like that toward an affect having to hit him, it was raising it this way to show him that I had something to defend myself.
Well, all right, accepting that that you didn’t raise it to chest level or above, but that you nevertheless raised is so as to make it clear ‘I have a stick’ -
Case Details
Citation[2024] SASC 97
CourtSASC
JurisdictionSouth Australia
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