Officers reacted in a way that was heavy-handed and provocative, according to the jury. The judge said he agreed with their view
Police have been criticiby a judge and jury for being 'heavy-handed' in detaining a suspect - after he was filmed being tripped and pepper-sprayed without warning. Daniel James, 45, was detained after refusing to leave the scene where a woman had suffered a medical episode.
In a note passed to the judge, they wrote: "The way Mr James was treated in the build up to these events felt very heavy-handed and appear very provocative. We empathise with Mr James’ sense of injustice at being sprayed and taken to the floor.” Footage from the police officers’ body-worn cameras captured the moment James was sprayed by PC Lewis Quarterman in Cornmarket in the early hours of June 5 last year. During the trial, the court heard that police were called to Cornmarket at around 3.30am on June 5 last year by paramedics whose attempts to treat a woman who had collapsed near the Plush nightclub attracted a crowd of curious onlookers.
They detained James while members of the public filmed and asked the PCs to get the man water. Two officers, PCs Henry Lapworth and David Griffiths, took the suspect to the back of a police van to search him. The back doors were open, as was the door to the ‘cage’ inside the vehicle. As the camera panned back across, white-flecked spittle was seen on the lower half of the police van door. The suspect was taken to the floor and pinned by around four or five officers. One of them, PC Griffiths, claimed to have been bitten in the lower leg by James, telling jurors he had looked down to see James’ teeth around his boot and the lip of his sock.
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