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11:11 EDT, 4 June 2021
A police training expert has told the trial of an officer accused of murdering ex-footballer Dalian Atkinson he would never tell colleagues to use a foot to restrain someone s head on the ground.
Ian Mills, who had 28 years in policing, also told Birmingham Crown Court on Friday he had never trained officers to kick people in the head. You can t train it, it serves no purpose. most people can deliver kicks, low down, he said.
Prosecutors claim West Mercia Police Constable Benjamin Monk, who denies murder and manslaughter, used unlawful and unreasonable force during a final 33-second firing of his Taser, and by then kicking former Aston Villa star Atkinson twice in the head.