Four police officers in the dock over a bar brawl during which a man claimed he was battered in a toilet cubicle have been cleared after a three week trial.
However a spokesman for Merseyside Police said, despite the acquittals at Preston Crown Court yesterday, the officer's actions will be "considered" through misconduct proceedings. Disciplinary hearings rely on a lower threshold of proof than criminal trials and can lead to officers being sacked without notice and barred from policing jobs for life.
The Merseyside PCs, based at Edge Lane police station, were off-duty and on a night out celebrating a colleague getting a new posting when violence erupted at Ava's Bar in Renshaw Street, on July 28, 2020.
