A serving Met Police Service officer who kidnapped, raped and murdered marketing executive Sarah Everard will face justice in London today for his appalling crimes.
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The warning came on the same day the chair of an inquiry into the unrelated murder of private investigator Daniel Morgan said she had 'major concerns'
Sir Tom's comments in the report come as a national campaign aims to hire an additional 20,000 police officers in England and Wales by March 31 2023
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By Press Association 2021
West Mercia Police constables Benjamin Monk and Mary Ellen Bettley-Smith
The Dalian Atkinson murder trial has heard the ex-footballer’s father told police his son was not in his right mind on the night he was Tasered outside his family home.
On the third day of a trial at Birmingham Crown Court, jurors were read a statement given to officers by Ernest Atkinson a week after his son’s death on August 15, 2016.
Mr Atkinson, who has since died, told police his son had grabbed him around the throat after “pounding” on the door of his home in Meadow Close in Telford, Shropshire, in the early hours.
By Press Association 2021
West Mercia Police constables Benjamin Monk and Mary Ellen Bettley-Smith
The Dalian Atkinson murder trial has heard the ex-footballer’s father told police his son was not in his right mind on the night he was Tasered outside his family home.
On the third day of a trial at Birmingham Crown Court, jurors were read a statement given to officers by Ernest Atkinson a week after his son’s death on August 15, 2016.
Mr Atkinson, who has since died, told police his son had grabbed him around the throat after “pounding” on the door of his home in Meadow Close in Telford, Shropshire, in the early hours.
16:32 EDT, 6 May 2021
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An elderly neighbour of ex-Aston Villa star Dalian Atkinson has told the court she watched as a police officer kicked him in the head as he lay dying.
The Crown alleges West Mercia Pc Benjamin Monk murdered the ex-Aston Villa star by kicking him in the head intending serious harm, while the officer's then partner, Pc Mary Ellen Bettley-Smith struck blows with a baton out of anger.
Jean Jeffery-Shaw told Birmingham Crown Court she was so ‘traumatised’ after watching the police ‘kill a man’ outside her bedroom window that she was forced to consult her GP.
It comes after a statement written by Mr Atkinson's father Ernest before his own death told the murder trial he warned police his son was 'not in his right mind' on the night he was Tasered.