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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Matthew Cooper

FORGOTTEN HISTORY: Police constable cleared of assault after telling court he feared being punched - Caught on Camera

PA Wire

A police officer has been cleared of any wrongdoing after a court accepted he had used proportionate and reasonable force on a drunken man at the scene of a domestic argument.

Pc Jack Green, 28, was found not guilty of assault by beating after District Judge Shamim Qureshi said the alleged victim was a “person of no credibility whatsoever” whose evidence had been partly “guesswork”.

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