Handshake ‘not crime’

A WOMAN who said she was injured when a real estate agent squeezed her hand after a Sydney property auction has lost her bid to be declared a victim of violent crime.

“I do not find that the agent committed a crime by shaking the applicant’s hand firmly or in some other physically hard or aggressive manner,” concluded John Anthony, a senior member of the NSW Civil and Administrative Tribunal.

An assessor accepted the agent’s explanation that he shook the woman’s hand to say goodbye after the 2017 auction.