A New South Wales police officer will now face a second charge over the alleged assault of Hannah Thomas, who sustained a serious eye injury after she was arrested at a protest in June.

NSW police said the 33-year-old senior constable, who last month was charged with assault occasioning actual bodily harm, was on Wednesday also charged with recklessly causing grievous bodily harm.

The new charge carries a maximum penalty of 14 years in prison, and the maximum for the assault charge is five years’ imprisonment.

Thomas was arrested and charged alongside four others at a pro-Palestine protest in Sydney on 27 June that was attended by about 60 people at SEC Plating. Thomas, a former Greens candidate in the prime minister’s seat of Grayndler, was taken to hospital and underwent two round

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