A police officer has been cleared of unlawfully inflicting grievous bodily harm on a man who was left paralysed after he tasered him. Pc Imran Mahmood, 36, tasered Jordan Walker-Brown during a patrol in the early months of the first coronavirus lockdown on May 4 2020.
Mr Walker-Brown, who was 23 at the time, was left with “catastrophic” injuries after hitting his head on the pavement and breaking his back. He had not pulled out a weapon and presented no “physical threat” to anyone at the time he was tasered, prosecutors had told Southwark Crown Court.
On Thursday, the jury found the officer not guilty of inflicting grievous bodily harm having started their deliberations on Tuesday. Mr Walker-Brown said he knew what the verdict would be before it was heard.
