Two Metropolitan police officers have been immediately sacked following a gross misconduct hearing for punching and kicking a child during his arrest and lying about the incident.
The hearing, which followed an investigation by the Independent Office for Police Conduct, heard that police constables Alexei Zalesskiy and Conor Ryan were accused of using excessive force on the 14-year-old boy, who was part of a group of young people gathered at Finsbury Park, north London, in April 2021.
