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Evening Standard
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Tristan Kirk

Met Police officers accused of 'fists and batons' attack on mental health patient

Five Metropolitan Police officers are accused of beating up a mental health patient at a north London hospital by striking him with “fists and batons”, a court has heard.

The officers – all PCs on the Met’s Central North Command – have been charged with inflicting grievous bodily harm with intent on David Bailey, 57, in an incident in April 2023.

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