Police officer needed surgery after punch on Cup day

By Dan Proudman
Updated July 8 2014 - 9:38am, first published July 7 2014 - 10:00pm
REMORSE EXPRESSED: Nathanael David Watt leaves Newcastle Local Court.
REMORSE EXPRESSED: Nathanael David Watt leaves Newcastle Local Court.

A DRUNKEN Melbourne Cup reveller who turned on police after one of his mates was asked to leave a Muswellbrook hotel punched a police officer so hard he needed reconstructive nose surgery.

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