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Breaking news coming from the courts about the death of foreman aston villa football her daily in atkinson. west mercia police constable has been found guilty of the manslaughter of him. cleared of his murder after a trial at birmingham crown court. dalian atkinson was tasered and kicked by benjamin monk in august 2016. just to recap. west mercia police constable benjamin monk has been found guilty of manslaughter of dalian atkinson, but cleared of his murder. we will have more from the court on that soon. the time is 1156. let's check out the latest weather. hello again.

Home in telford in 2016. monk was cleared of murder. jurors are still deliberating an assault charge against his colleague. let's go live now to our correspondent in birmingham, phil mackie. yes, jane, yes,jane, i yes, jane, i followed the case throughout, for five years nearly, since dalian atkinson died that night in august 2016 in telford. just before midday, we had verdicts from thejury, who have been deliberating for more than 18 hours per stop it's been a seven—week trial. and they cleared pc benjamin monk of count one murder but found him guilty of count two, that's manslaughter. he i...

And kicked him twice in the head. the former aston villa striker died outside his father's home in telford in 2016. monk was cleared of murder. jurors are still deliberating an assault charge against his colleague. our correspondence phil mackie has followed this case throughout. so we had the verdict come through just before midday today. the jurors who have been deliberating for nearly 19 hours, after a seven—week trial, cleared pc monk of a charge of murder but found him guilty of the alternative charge of manslaughter. is the first time that a police officer has been convicted of manslau...

Yes, this verdict came through in the last few minutes after more than 18 hours of deliberation. the incident happened five years ago, or nearly five years ago, in august 2016. dalian atkinson who was a well—known and highly regarded premier league footballer who played for ipswich and sheffield wednesday and here for aston villa had been seriously ill at the time and his behaviour on the night he died was described in court as bizarre and erratic. in the early hours of the morning, he drove to his father's house in telford, banged and shouted and asked to be let in and shouted that he was t...

Support. this is the scene in the house of commons, where borisjohnson will face questions from mps at prime minister's questions shortly. we'll bring it to you live on bbc news. a west mercia police officer has been found guilty of manslaughter of former aston villa footballer dalian atkinson. pc ben monk was cleared on the charge of murder. mr atkinson died after being tasered and kicked by pc monk in telford in august 2016. our correspondent phil mackie has more. tell us more about what happened.