A police constable who was found guilty of gross misconduct for using excessive force when she repeatedly hit an ex-footballer with her baton after he was Tasered is keeping her job.
An independent tribunal found on Friday that Mary Ellen Bettley-Smith, a West Mercia Police officer, acted wrongly when she struck Dalian Atkinson three times with her police-issue baton during an incident in the early hours of August 15 2016, following which the ex-sportsman later died.
