If it was ‘prompt and effective’, should it take three years?
An officer filmed in a headlock, throwing nine punches. Cleared once by a jury. Cleared again this week by a misconduct panel. Same evidence, same conclusion, twice.
PC Richard Williams has just spent three years fighting two separate processes over one arrest in Porthmadog, a criminal trial and a week long misconduct hearing, both ending the same way: no case to answer.
We break down what the bodycam actually showed, what the panel ruled, and why it took over three years to get here, in today's newsletter.
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