Police sergeant avoids jail over death of 16-year-old Indigenous teenager Jai Wright

Emotional family member wailed as Benedict Bryant was sentenced to two-year intensive corrections order

A wail rung out through a court room as a police officer was sentenced for killing an Indigenous teenager in a New South Wales first.

Benedict Bryant was found guilty in November of dangerous driving occasioning death after he parked his unmarked car in front of a stolen trail bike ridden by Jai Wright in 2022.

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