Interview on ITV Tyne and Tees - 14 June 2016

Interview on ITV Tyne and Tees - 14 June 2016

http://www.itv.com/news/2016-06-14/police-officer-sacked-after-wearing-i-love-weed-hat-and-writing-abuse-on-document-during-child-abuse-probe/

Interview BBC London Radio 94.9 on Undercover Policing - 16 July 2015

BBC London Radio 94.9 Drivetime with Eddie Nestor http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02vn2yw

Undercover police practices 'could have led to unsafe convictions'

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-33555622

Interviewed on BBC South Today 27 January 2015

BBC News - Aston McLean Williams death: Police were 'judge and jury', claims mum http://bbc.in/1uXekvX

Interviewed on BBC South East Today - 7 August 2014

Interviewed on BBC South Today. Follow-up story on police officers from Canterbury, Kent involved in alleged assault of a shoplifter. South East Today, 07/08/2014: http://bbc.in/1zY405f

http://www.kentonline.co.uk/canterbury/news/canterbury-pc-cleared-over-cctv-20761/

Canterbury PC Brett Wright from Dover cleared of lying about CCTV of arrest of Murston shoplifter Jack Harbour at Debenhams

One of three police officers accused of lying about the existence of CCTV footage of an arrest will not stand trial after a judge dismissed the charge against him today.

PC Brett Wright, 40, was cleared of conspiracy to pervert the course of justice.

But the case will proceed against PC Geoffrey Keen, 31, and 37-year-old PC Daniel Short.

The officers are seen restraining Jack Harbour in the leaked CCTV footage

Canterbury-based Wright, of Manley Close, Dover; Short, of Freshwater Close, Herne Bay; and Keen, of Byllan Road, Dover, had all applied in July to have the charge dismissed.

It relates to the arrest of shoplifter Jack Harbour, who was detained in a holding room at Debenhams in Canterbury High Street on July 11 last year.

A CCTV camera recorded the arrest and the footage, which was leaked online three months later.

The officers were alleged between July 10 and October 31 to have failed to "retain and reveal" that CCTV was available from the holding room.

The charge adds "statements were then completed which led to a person being exposed to a risk of prosecution with intent to pervert the course of justice".

Harbour, 23, from Murston, Sittingbourne, was later convicted of theft - but a charge of assaulting PC Wright by spitting at him was dropped.

The three officers were suspended from duties in October.

Judge Jeremy Carey ruled at Maidstone Crown Court there was insufficient evidence against PC Wright to support the charge
.

Interview on BBC South Today - 6 August 2014 - Police crash death in Reading

Interviewed on BBC South Today on the death of a man following a police car crash.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-berkshire-28670817

South Today, 06/08/2014: http://bbc.in/1vc0a9v
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-berkshire-28670817

A man died when he was struck by a marked police car in Reading.

The victim, 28, and a police officer were hit by the vehicle as it responded to a burglary in Eastern Avenue at about 01:45 BST.

The man died at the scene of the crash in Wokingham Road. The police officer was taken to hospital with non life-threatening injuries.

The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) confirmed it is investigating the incident.

Wokingham Road, near Reading Old Cemetery, was closed for an investigation but has since reopened.

Chief Constable Sara Thornton, of Thames Valley Police, said: "We take it very seriously - someone has died.

"We have to find out what happened but it's early days and the IPCC will give any further comments.

Interview on Sky News - Undercover Policing Report on 24 July 2014

Interviewed on Sky News about the Undercover Policing Report - Operation Herne, Report 3
http://news.sky.com/story/1306459/undercover-police-slammed-in-misconduct-report

Interviewed on BBC Oxford News - 9 July 2014

Interviewed on BBC Oxford News on 9 July 2014 -excessive use of use by Thames Valley Police on a local man. BBC Oxford News, 09/07/2014: http://bbc.in/1q17XVr