FIVE POLICEMEN WERE COMMITTED FOR TRIAL AT THE OLD

FIVE POLICEMEN WERE COMMITTED FOR TRIAL AT THE OLD BAILEY

TODAY (FRI) ON CHARGES ARISING FROM THE HOLLOWAY VAN ATTACK.

THE INCIDENT TOOK PLACE THREE YEARS AGO ON AUGUST 6 1983

AS FIVE YOUTHS, AGED BETWEEEN 14 AND 16, WERE LEAVING A FAIR.

THE YOUNGSTERS – BALTIMORE AND ERRICK RANGER, GARY FOLEY,

DANIEL JENKINS AND DURSAN NALVANT – WERE WALKING HOME WHEN THEY WERE

ALLEGEDLY SET UPON BY FOURCS AS THEIR SERGEANT AND OTHER OFFICERS

IN A POLICE VAN.

THE ATTACK TOOK PLACE IN GEORGE’S STREET, HOLLOWAY, NORTH

LONDON.

FOUR CONSTABLES, MICHAEL PARR, 27, MICHAEL GAVIN, 27, EDWARD

MAIN, 26, NICHOLAS WISE, 26, ALL FACE FOUR CHARGES OF ASSAULT

OCCASIONING ACTUAL BODILY HARM AND ONE CHARGE EACH OF COMMON ASSUALT.

MAIN, IS FURTHER ACCUSED OF CAUSING ACTUAL BODILY HARM TO AN

UNKNOWN PERSON.

PARR IS ACCUSED OF COMMON ASSAULT AGAINST AN UNKNOWN

PERSON AND GAVIN IS ACCUSED OF ATTACKING BALTIMORE RANGER, OF RUSSELL

CRESCENT, STOCKWELL, SOUTH LONDON, AND CAUSING HIM ACTUAL BODILY

HARM.

SGT COLIN EDWARDS, 33, IS ACCUSED OF MISCONDUCT FOR

FAILING TO CARRY OUT HIS DUTY AND ALL FIVE OFFICERS ARE CHARGED WITH

ATTEMPTING TO PERVERT THE COURSE OF JUSTICE.

CHIEF METROPOLITAN MAGISTRATE MR DAVID HOPKIN DECIDED ALL

FIVE HAD CASES TO ANSWER AFTER HEARING FIVE DAYS OF EVIDENCE, AT

LONDON’S BOW STREET COURT.

ENDS