Details about his arrest have emerged in a damning Police Integrity Commission (PIC) report, tabled in parliament on Tuesday. It found officers slammed Mr Barker into a bin and a chair before swinging him into a machine. He was then forced to the ground before being kicked in the head and kneed in the side. “The police treatment of Barker can fairly be described as violent,” the report said. Mr Barker was handcuffed and dragged along the floor on his stomach by his arms to a cell where he was left in handcuffs for more than 90 minutes. “This method would have been acutely painful and was brutal,” the PIC said. It found constables David Hill, Lee Walmsley, Ryan Eckersley and Luke Mewing used excessive force against Mr Barker. They were also found to have lied about the arrest, along with Senior Constable Mark Woolven and former sergeant Robert McCubben, who was medically discharged from the force last December.
Posted on: Wed, 11 Sep 2013 03:24:31 +0000
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