The claimant sought judicial review of a decision by the IPCC that a apolice officer had no case to answer on his complaint that the officer had placed his hands around the claimant’s neck while in custody as if to strangle him.
Held: The IPCC having found it lore likely than not that the assault had taken place, the decision not o proceed was irrational and set aside.
Burnett LJ, William Davis J
[2015] EWHC 593 (Admin), [2015] PTSR 1268, [2015] WLR(D) 120
Bailii, WLRD
England and Wales
Police
Updated: 28 December 2021; Ref: scu.543925
