Deaf-mute cleared
NZPA London A man accused of abusing policemen after he was stopped in a car has been cleared after a court heard that he was ' a deafmute. Constable Richard Houston told Coventry Magistrates that lan Williams, aged 20, had said: “I’m a Rasta and I don’t like white men.” Constable Houston said that Mr Williams had
prodded him in the chest after being halted at traffic lights. Mr Williams had held up a fist and shouted: “The next time you speak to me I’ll put you on the ground with this.” He was then arrested and was said to have struggled violently as he was bundled into the police car. But Mr Williams’s solicitor, David Sarginson, said that he could not have held such a conversation, and accused the police of faking
their evidence to cover up a mistake. Mr Sarginson said that Mr Williams could * nbt speak complete sentences, and that without a hearing aid he could make put noises only as loud as a jet plane’s taking off. He was found not guilty of assaulting a police officer and damaging a police car, and an application for him to be bound over to be of good behaviour was rejected. -
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Press, 30 May 1983, Page 8
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