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Police officers to face magistrates after protester's arrest at anti-EDL rally
Officers summonsed to face perverting course of justice charge after CPS dropped case against protester who was struck in face
Two serving Greater Manchester police officers have been summonsed to appear before magistrates more than two years after a Unite Against Fascism protester was filmed being struck in the face during a rally.
Alan Clough, 65, from Radcliffe, Bury, was protesting against the English Defence League in Bolton in March 2010 when he was struck, fell to the ground and was subsequently arrested.
He was due to stand trial on a charge of using threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour in October 2010, but the Crown Prosecution Service dropped the case after footage of the rally was obtained.
Inspector Robert Cantrell, 39, and PC Alan Glover, 31 – both members of the Greater Manchester force's tactical aid unit – have been summoned to appear before York magistrates court on 11 September. The summons relates to a charge of perverting the course of justice.
Link: http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/sep/04/manchester-police-summonses-perverting-justice
Two serving Greater Manchester police officers have been summonsed to appear before magistrates more than two years after a Unite Against Fascism protester was filmed being struck in the face during a rally.
Alan Clough, 65, from Radcliffe, Bury, was protesting against the English Defence League in Bolton in March 2010 when he was struck, fell to the ground and was subsequently arrested.
He was due to stand trial on a charge of using threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour in October 2010, but the Crown Prosecution Service dropped the case after footage of the rally was obtained.
Inspector Robert Cantrell, 39, and PC Alan Glover, 31 – both members of the Greater Manchester force's tactical aid unit – have been summoned to appear before York magistrates court on 11 September. The summons relates to a charge of perverting the course of justice.
Link: http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/sep/04/manchester-police-summonses-perverting-justice
I'm not surprised. I've experience of the police's handling of the EDL in Newcastle upon Tyne. In my estimation, sections of the police seemed sympathetic to the EDL in the 2010 march and anti-fascist protesters were picked on and harassed by police.
Though interestingly in the 2011 Newcastle upon Tyne EDL March, the police were not sympathetic at all to the EDL. The fact was that EDL knuckle-draggers were causing public order disturbances in every pub they went in to and by the time they returned in 2011, the police just wanted rid of them. Not to mention that police budgeters were noticing just how much these things cost to police.
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