A Metropolitan Police officer who was fined £1,500 for assault after wrongly arresting a woman for not paying a bus fare evasion has had his conviction overturned.
A Metropolitan Police officer who was fined £1,500 for assault after wrongly arresting a woman for not paying a bus fare evasion has had his conviction overturned. PC Perry Lathwood had been found guilty of assaulting the woman who had been travelling on a bus in Croydon, south London, with her son in July 2023.
"Mr Lathwood kept holding her and demanded she tapped her Oyster card before another officer took the card and confirmed payment had been made meaning Ms Agyemang's handcuffs were removed and she was de-arrested.
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