Andrew Thaler has previously run as a candidate for the seat of Eden-Monaro. Photo: Claire Fenwicke.
All of the charges laid against a former federal election candidate over an alleged assault in a Snowy-Monaro cafe have been dropped.
Andrew Evan Thaler, a former candidate for the federal seat of Eden-Monaro, was charged over the incident on 5 May 2024.
NSW Police previously said officers arrived at Bombala Street in Nimmitabel at about 2 pm and spoke to a number of people.
It was alleged there had been an altercation at a nearby cafe, where a 48-year-old woman and a 53-year-old man were assaulted.
Thaler, a 51-year-old who lives in the Snowy Monaro, was arrested and charged with two counts of common assault as well as single counts of assault occasioning actual bodily harm, choking and remaining on enclosed land without a lawful excuse.
However, on Tuesday (21 August), all of the charges were withdrawn, and then dismissed by Magistrate Roger Clisdell in the Cooma Local Court.
The matter was then listed for a mention in the court on 9 October.
Afterwards, on social media, Thaler said his lawyer had filed an application for police to pay his legal costs, which would take place in October.
“I reckon the police took way too long. Deliberately too long to withdraw the charges which were demonstrable and abundantly clearly wrong … to anyone who looked at the video evidence,” he said on social media.
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