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1 week ago |
channel4.com | Anja Popp
He was 92, had only one leg and used a wheelchair. When Donald Burgess wielded a serrated cutlery knife at his care home, staff called the police. But within a minute and half of arriving, the two police officers who responded had sprayed him with synthetic pepper spray and discharged a taser. Mr Burgess died 22 days later of Covid. Today a jury at Southwark Crown Court acquitted Constables Stephen Smith and Rachel Comotto of assault.
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1 week ago |
channel4.com | Anja Popp
Liverpool’s Metro Mayor says four people are “very, very ill in hospital” after a car collided with the crowds during the Premier League victory parade. The incident took place on Water Street in the city centre at around 6pm yesterday – just as events were drawing to a close. Nearly fifty people were injured, with 27 people taken to hospital by ambulance. Merseyside Police are continuing to hold the driver of the car, who they said was a 53 year-old white British man.
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2 weeks ago |
channel4.com | Anja Popp
A police officer’s decision to use an incapacitant spray on a 92-year-old amputee in a wheelchair was consistent with his training, a court has heard. PC Stephen Smith is being tried, along with his colleague Rachel Comotto for allegedly using excessive force when called to a care home where Donald Burgess had been threatening staff with a cutlery knife.
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2 weeks ago |
channel4.com | Anja Popp
Gary Lineker has announced he will leave the BBC earlier than expected and will not front the corporation’s World Cup coverage next summer. This Sunday’s ‘Match of the Day’ will be his last after he shared an anti-Semitic post on social media, for which he has apologised.
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2 weeks ago |
channel4.com | Anja Popp
Could UK holiday makers soon be able to beat the queues by using e-gates at EU airports? With a UK-EU summit due to take place in London tomorrow, the government says it’s still working to hammer out the details of a new deal to ease trade and travel. But opposition leaders have condemned the proposed deal as a ‘surrender’ that could curtail Britain’s freedom to choose not to follow EU rules.
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