AWARDED DAMAGES
Brutality By Police
(N.Z.P.A.-Reuter—Copyright) LONDON, March 15. A man said by his counsel to have become “a bruised and bloodspattered mess” during an hour in police hands was awarded £3OO damages by a jury at Manchester Assizes on Monday. The judge, Mr Justice Brabin, also awarded costs to Anthony Wood, aged 22, an electrician, of Tyldesley, Lancashire, who sued the Chief Constable of Manchester for alleged assault and battering. Wood told the jury that two police officers caught him taking the emblem from a car outside a dance hall. One officer forcibly twisted his arm behind his back, then held him down, and repeatedly struck him when in the back seat of a patrol car, said Wood. He was then lifted bodily on to the pavement, stretched out and kicked three times in the back, he said.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31320, 16 March 1967, Page 17
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