A police officer has been found guilty of assaulting two members of the public on consecutive days during the first Covid lockdown - including an attack on a 15-year-old boy.
PC Declan Jones committed both offences while on duty in Birmingham, starting with an assault on a man in Aston on April last year.
The 30-year-old West Midlands Police officer went on to kick and punch a 15-year-old he wrongly accused of possessing drugs in the Newtown area of the city on the following day. PC Jones had denied three counts of common assault.
Reaching verdicts on Monday after a week-long trial at Coventry Magistrates' Court in June, District Judge Shamim Qureshi cleared Jones of assaulting a third complainant who was punched in the face on April 23, when the officer was heard to say he did not believe in the virus.
The judge said the third incident had seen the officer use "proportionate" force as colleagues struggled to detain a man wearing a stab-proof vest in Handsworth.
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How awful