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An Australian police press conference came to a dramatic halt when a Sunshine Coast detective crash tackled an accused stalker who was being chased down the street by an enraged father.
As Detective Senior Sergeant Daren Edwards was speaking to reporters outside the Maroochydore police station on Wednesday, a father was giving chase to a 39-year-old Brisbane man who had made alleged inappropriate comments to his teenage daughter.
“You better get running!” the father Kevin Scells was heard yelling at the man, in the background of the press conference.
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The tackled man has since been charged with unlawful stalking and public nuisance.
Senior Sergeant Edwards leapt into action, taking the man down, and sustaining a few grazes to his head.
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Scells told Nine News he chased the man because he had made inappropriate comments to his 19-year-old daughter.
“I was just sitting in the car and this man’s said a few inappropriate things to my daughter and I’ve just reacted by chasing him up the road and it just happened to be you guys were here at the same time,” he said.
Charlotte Scells told Nine that the 39-year-old man had approached her twice.
“He just asked me if I was single, saying that I was beautiful and he was going to buy me stuff. I just told him to go away and I wasn’t interested,” she said.
The same man had earlier interrupted the press conference, whingeing about police.
Police charged the man with unlawful stalking and public nuisance.
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