‘I’m sitting inside this cage’: Doctor interrogated by police over rum theft speaks to AusDoc
The rehabilitation specialist is free to speak out after police issued an apology 30 months after his ordeal began
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The doctor falsely accused of stealing a bottle of rum says Victoria Police had multiple opportunities to end his ordeal early if they had been less heavy-handed.
Dr Prasannan Ponganamparambile was labelled the main suspect in the theft on a police-run Facebook page in 2020.