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"I am delighted to hear again my innocence, my reputation and my integrity as a police officer has been recognised. I hope now that a line can be drawn and everyone can be left in peace," he added.
Weighing up the competing claims, the judge said PC Rowland was "not the sort of man who would have had the wit, imagination or inclination to invent on the spur of the moment an account of what a senior politician had said to him in temper".
He added that gaps and inconsistencies in PC Rowland's account did not demonstrate he had fabricated his account, as Mr Mitchell's lawyers claimed.
If he was making up his account, PC Rowland would have had to have come up with the words within seconds, according to the judge.
He added that gaps and inconsistencies in PC Rowland's account did not demonstrate he had fabricated his account, as Mr Mitchell's lawyers claimed.
If he was making up his account, PC Rowland would have had to have come up with the words within seconds, according to the judge.
However the accounts of various officers there were fabricated as borne out by CCTV.
I suspect Mitchell used a few choice phrases but Pleb probably wasn't one of them. The whole thing stank of a fit up. He probably is a Pratt but this time he may well of been in the right.
The report from the Independent Police Complaints Commission recommends that the three representatives, Insp Ken MacKaill, Det Sgt Stuart Hinton and Sgt Chris Jones should face gross misconduct proceedings.
However, their three forces, West Mercia, West Midlands and Warwickshire, rejected the recommendations and said there was insufficient evidence to suggest that the officers had done more than exercise poor judgment. A previous investigation by the West Mercia force concluded that the three men had no case to answer for gross misconduct. However, Mrs May told the home affairs select committee yesterday that it was “quite wrong” for the three not to face disciplinary proceedings.
However, their three forces, West Mercia, West Midlands and Warwickshire, rejected the recommendations and said there was insufficient evidence to suggest that the officers had done more than exercise poor judgment. A previous investigation by the West Mercia force concluded that the three men had no case to answer for gross misconduct. However, Mrs May told the home affairs select committee yesterday that it was “quite wrong” for the three not to face disciplinary proceedings.
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