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Freed, the 'thug in police uniform': What jury weren't told about the PC cleared of G20 killing

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  • PC Harwood was subject of TEN complaints: racially abusing and punching girl, 14, and threatening to set fire to her father’s home; road-rage attack; throttling suspects during arrests; and unlawfully accessing police database

  • IPCC says Harwood will face Met internal disciplinary proceedings

  • Harwood was due to face internal proceedings in 2001 after being accused of unlawful arrest, abuse of authority and discreditable conduct

  • These were discontinued when Harwood retired on medical grounds

  • He rejoined Met in 2004 as part of Territorial Support Group specialising in public order

  • Protesters staged demonstration outside New Scotland Yard

A riot squad officer was denounced as a ‘thug in uniform’ yesterday as he was cleared of killing an innocent bystander. Ian Tomlinson died after PC Simon Harwood lashed him with a baton and shoved him to the ground.

The 45-year-old officer had an appalling record of complaints against him for violence in the years before the incident.

Yet such ‘prejudicial’ details were kept from the jury, who cleared him of manslaughter in a verdict described as a ‘joke’.family of Ian Tomlinson who died during the London G20 protests has vowed to seek 'justice' in the civil courts after the PC accused of his manslaughter was cleared
today.

Last night the dead man’s family vowed to sue as it was revealed that staggering vetting lapses allowed the PC to be on the front line at the G20 protest in April 2009.
Mr Tomlinson, 47, a father of nine and an alcoholic, was accidentally
caught up in the protest as he walked home drunk from work as a
newspaper seller in the City of London.

After the incident with Harwood, caught on film, he staggered away from police lines before collapsing and dying of massive internal bleeding.Then officer was cleared by a majority verdict at Southwark Crown Court, just 14 months after an inquest jury said Mr Tomlinson had been unlawfully killed.

Neither of those juries were told about the shameful career of the PC who managed to avoid no fewer than ten complaints by simply moving between two forces.
The allegations include a road-rage attack; racially abusing and punching a 14-year-old girl repeatedly in the back of the neck and threatening to burn down her father’s home; punching, throttling, kneeing or threatening suspects in heavy-handed arrests; and unlawfully accessing
the police national computer database.

Yet PC Harwood, who admitted he was liable to go into ‘red mist mode’, kept his job after retiring from the Met on medical grounds on the eve of a disciplinary hearing.

He rejoined the same force on its civilian staff three days later and subsequently moved on to Surrey Police, before returning to serve with the Met in 2004. The revelations raise serious questions about the practice of officers going off sick and changing forces to sidestep disciplinary proceedings.
Yesterday the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) said it was simply ‘staggering’ that he had been able to remain a police officer and calledfor an overhaul of Scotland Yard’s vetting procedures.Mr Tomlinson’s widow Julia and nine children sobbed as the jury delivered
their verdict after almost 19 hours of deliberation. His stepson Paul King said: ‘It’s a joke. In April 2009, along with everyone else, we sawthe shocking video of Ian being violently assaulted by PC Harwood, just minutes before he died.

‘After the unlawful killing verdict at the inquest last year we expected to hear a guilty verdict. This really hurts. But it’s not the end. We are not giving up on justice for Ian.‘There has to be one more formal and final answer to the question of who killed Ian Tomlinson and that we will now pursue in the civil courts.’

The family have already launched a civil suit in the High Court, although their solicitor indicated that all they wanted was an apology from the Metropolitan Police for allowing Harwood to remain in uniform and an admission that he killed Mr Tomlinson.

Yesterday the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) said it was simply ‘staggering’ that he had been able to remain a police officer and called for an overhaul of Scotland Yard’s vetting procedures.Mr Tomlinson’s widow Julia and nine children sobbed as the jury delivered their verdict after almost 19 hours of deliberation.

His stepson Paul King said: ‘It’s a joke. In April 2009, along with everyone else, we saw the shocking video of Ian being violently assaulted by PC Harwood, just minutes before he
died.

‘After the unlawful killing verdict at the inquest last year we expected to hear a guilty verdict. This
really hurts. But it’s not the end. We are not giving up on justice for Ian.‘There has to be one more formal and final answer to the question of who killed Ian Tomlinson and that we will now pursue in the civil courts.’

The family have already launched a civil suit in the High Court, although their solicitor indicated that all they wanted was an apology from the Metropolitan Police for allowing Harwood to remain in uniform and an admission that he killed Mr Tomlinson.

Yesterday London Assembly member Jenny Jones said: ‘The family have got to feel that they have been cheated by this verdict.

‘It’s hard to see how it is fair. Quite honestly, looking at his record, he comes across as a thug in uniform. ‘It’s time that the Commissioner looked at procedures for re-entry and took more care in examining potential officer’s records.’

PC Harwood will now face a disciplinary hearing in public, scheduled to last for four weeks, after which he is expected to be sacked for misconduct. Deborah Glass, deputy chairman of the IPCC, said: ‘PC Harwood was able to retire from the Metropolitan Police while facing disciplinary proceedings for previous alleged misconduct towards a member of the public. ‘That he was then re-employed by the force is simply staggering and raises considerable concerns about vetting procedures.’

The case began when previously unseen footage of Mr Tomlinson being shoved to the ground was released to a newspaper.

‘It’s time that the Commissioner looked at procedures for re-entry and took more care in examining
potential officer’s records.’ PC Harwood will now face a disciplinary hearing in public, scheduled to
last for four weeks, after which he is expected to be sacked for
misconduct. Deborah Glass, deputy chairman of the IPCC, said: ‘PC Harwood was able to retire
from the Metropolitan Police while facing disciplinary proceedings for previous alleged misconduct towards a member of the public.
‘That he was then re-employed by the force is simply staggering and raises considerable concerns about vetting procedures.’

The case began when previously unseen footage of Mr Tomlinson being shoved to the ground was released to a newspaper.

In May last year an inquest concluded that he was unlawfully killed after jurors decided he died of abdominal haemorrhage due to blunt force trauma to the abdomen, in association with alcoholic cirrhosis of the liver.n The ruling paved the way for a criminal trial in which prosecutor Mark Dennis QC said of PC Harwood: ‘It was a rush of blood to the head. It was unnecessary aggression more
akin to thuggish behaviour than proper reasonable policing.
‘The display of force has all the hallmarks of a gratuitous act of aggression by a lone officer whose blood was up having lost the self-control to be expected of a police officer in such circumstances and who was going to stand no truck from anyone who appeared to him to be a protester and to be getting in his way.’ Butthe officer, part of the Met’s elite public order unit, the Territorial Support Group, said he believed Mr Tomlinson, who was drunk at the time, was being deliberately obstructive and that his use of force was reasonable.
Earlier that day, Harwood had abandoned his post as a riot squad van driver to tackle a yob scrawling ‘All cops are bastards’ on a police van.
After the graffiti artist managed to get away, in the space of 20 minutes Harwood pulled a cameraman to the floor, pushed a demonstrator and attacked Mr Tomlinson.
He told the jury he was ‘absolutely terrified’ and trying to protect himself and other officers.

Yesterday the father of two wept silently in the dock as he was cleared. His wife
Helen, a GP surgery manager, burst into tears and threw her arms around him as they left court together without comment. Met Deputy Assistant Commissioner Maxine de Brunner admitted that the force had got it wrong when it re-employed him and said it was reviewing its
vetting procedures.

PC facing attack inquiry retired through ill health - three days later he got anther job with police

The dossier of complaints against PC Simon Harwood that the jury never saw takes up no fewer than five ring-binder files. It shows how he managed to sidestep a series of disciplinary hearings to end up on the G20 front line.

Harwood, 45, started his career at the Metropolitan Police in 1995 and quickly established a reputation for aggression.

On April 7, 2000 he was accused of a road rage assault after a minor collision with a motorist while off duty. Harwood was said to have run at the other driver, slamming him back over the car door in front of horrified witnesses. He then announced that he was a police officer and arrested the driver for common assault.

Another officer noticed Harwood had doctored his notes to justify the arrest, saying the motorist had refused to give his details.Chief Inspector Les Jones concluded that his behaviour had ‘fallen well below that expected by a police officer’ and Harwood was charged with misconduct for unlawful arrest, abuse of authority and discreditable behaviour. Scotland Yard paid out compensation to the victim, who complained of unnecessary force.

But on August 22, 2001 – three weeks after he was charged – a note was placed in Harwood’s file saying he was to be medically retired owing to a shoulder injury sustained in an off-duty motorbike accident in 1998.He left with a full pension on September 14, 2001, and the case was closed days before disciplinary proceedings would have begun. Three days later he was apparently well enough to rejoin the same force as a civilian computer worker in Croydon.


Added: Jul-20-2012 Occurred On: Jul-20-2012
By: MrScabs
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  • Rejoined straight into the TSG ( SPG ) . Which is exactly the kinda fuckin mook they're looking for . You think the cops don't profile on recruitment ?

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  • US has the Miranda warning (right to remain silent), UK will probably adopt a Tomlinson rule: an officer must first take a medical history before applying a baton to any part of a rioter's body...

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    • @Ally_Gator I don't think it says in any court papers that he was a rioter. It's always been acknowledged he was a bystander. Should make a difference.

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  • if it was a hotter summer there would be bare riots in the streets right now.. how fickle we are :-/

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  • just like everywhere in the world cops get the breaks

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  • why did your post get reformatted? because liveleak says FUCK YOU, thats why

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  • Guy looks like a toff nosed fox hunter...... The perpertrator or anyone in this situatiion clearly shouldn't be tried for murder...... Now he isn't going to get charged at all...... Blatantly it's manslaughter...... Well played police force for skanking again, sneaky pre-court planning as usual...... Obviously he didn't murder the victim who had his hands in his pockets at the time he fell, but how could the victim of put out his hands in-time to have cushioned his fall & protected himself.. More..

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  • The jury system works.

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  • Great comment poster! One of my upsets too, not being able to set up the page like you would like it.

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  • Murdering bastard and yet again the police get away with murder. But notice Tomlinson was white so we wont see a repeat of last years rampaging primates in our cities.

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    • @mypotters Why don't you people stand up for your fellow whites? Does it mean that if you're white, cops could get away with murder?

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    • @Desertsfoxx
      What I was implying there is last years riots in England were started after police shot dead a black drug dealer in London so the blacks rioted. Yet a innocent whiteman gets murdered by a cunt of a copper and the nation does nothing apart from complain.

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  • On the same news bulletin as the not guilty verdict on this - creature, the police announced a fall in the murder rate in the UK.
    You can see why now.

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  • He was escorted to his car from the court by eight police officers. No such consideration to the victims families. He diminishes all police officers by staying in the service.

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  • A complete bastard and the corrupt police.

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