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A Metropolitan Police officer has been given a community order after being convicted of assaulting a 16-year-old boy in a police van. PC Sevda Gonen slapped the teenager multiple times and conducted an unlawful search. A second officer, PC Stuart Price, was also found guilty of assault by beating.

A Metropolitan Police officer has been given a community order after being convicted of assaulting a 16-year-old boy. PC Sevda Gonen, 33, was found guilty of two counts of assault by beating after slapping the boy multiple times in the face and carrying out an unlawful search of him on November 14, 2023. She was sentenced at Westminster Magistrates' Court on Friday to a 12-month community order including 150 hours of unpaid work.

PC Stuart Price, 35, was also found guilty in December of carrying out an unlawful search of the boy, amounting to assault by beating. Gonen had denied the charges, claiming she was concerned for the boy's life during the journey on November 13, 2023. The officers were initially called after the boy was reported to have been aggressive at his home address and violent towards a mental health worker who was attempting to perform an assessment, the trial heard. A camera inside a police vehicle captured conversation between the officers on their way to the boy's home, in which both officers could be heard using derogatory and explicit language to describe him. Once at the address, Price, from Gamlingay in Cambridgeshire, offered to drive the boy to hospital in a police van after his mother told officers she was concerned for her son's welfare. Footage from within the police vehicle showed the boy lit a cigarette and started to smoke as the van was driven to hospital. During the trial, Gonen said the boy's smoking made her 'panic' as there were 'huge safety risks', adding she suffers from asthma and smoking in the vehicle was 'criminal damage'. A search of the boy after the officers expressed concern he could have something in his pockets was found to be unlawful, as he had not been arrested. The boy's eyes lowered and he became less responsive, with Price heard on the footage saying: 'You all right, mate? We're just trying to help you, mate.' In footage shown to the court, Gonen appeared to slap the boy's face several times while holding him by the hair, causing his eyes to flicker. Discussing her actions, PC Gonen told the court: 'Any time there was a concern for his life, I decided the best course of action was to gently slap him on his cheeks. District Judge Briony Clarke also ordered Gonen to pay £3,000 in costs, £250 in compensation and a £114 victim surcharge. Meanwhile Price was ordered to pay a fine of £500, costs of £2,000, a victim surcharge of £200 and compensation of £100. The Met made a mandatory referral to the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) in December 2023, and the watchdog passed a file to the Crown Prosecution Service in April

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