Prosecutors have dropped charges against Hannah Thomas, who suffered a serious eye injury when officers broke up an anti-Israel protest in June, paving the way for the former Greens candidate to launch a civil lawsuit against the NSW Police.

At Bankstown Local Court on Tuesday, a lawyer from the Department of Public Prosecutions asked for the charges to be “withdrawn and dismissed”.

Thomas suffered a serious eye injury after police broke up an anti-Israel protest outside SEC Plating on June 27, a business in Belmore. She has undergone multiple surgeries since, and was warned by doctors that she may never regain vision in her right eye .

She was one of five protesters charged after the demonstration, which prompted serious criticism of NSW Police because of doubts over which laws offic

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