Monday, 13 January 2014

Scotland Yard pay out twice over ‘inconsistent’ claims

Here are three choice extracts from Martin Bentham’s report, though I recommend reading the whole article:

Police allegations against two students at a tuition fees demo were thrown out after YouTube film and photographs showed “shocking” inconsistencies in Met officers’ accounts of the incidents.

Scotland Yard has agreed to pay Mr Kumar £20,000 in damages after he launched legal action for wrongful arrest, false imprisonment, assault and malicious prosecution.

He [Mr Kumar] said he had been appalled by his treatment and the inaccurate accounts given by police. “What was astonishing was I was sitting in court and there were officers there ready to testify that I had done something when it was as clear as day from the video that I hadn’t.”