A MOTHER AND HER TWO SONS ENDED UP IN THE DOCK AFT
A MOTHER AND HER TWO SONS ENDED UP IN THE DOCK AFTER ALL
THREE ATTCKED TWO POLICE OFFICERS, INNER LONDON CROWN COURT
HEARD TODAY.
THE ALLEGED INCIDENT HAPPENED AFTER DOG HANDLERS PC
DAVID EDMONDS AND DAVID HAYDEN STOPPED A SUSPECTED STOLEN CAR.
THE TWO OFFICERS “WERE PATROLLING IN A MARKED DOG VAN IN
HIGH TREES, TULSE HILL,” SAID MR SUVENDRA POPAT PROSECUTING.
THEY SPOTTED A GREEN TRUIMPH CAR AND FOLLOWED IT UNTIL
IT PARKED OUTSIDE A HOUSE IN GAYWOOD CLOSE, BRIXTON.
BOTH OFFICERS GOT OUT TO SPEAK TO THE DRIVER, ANTHONY
THOMPSON,27, AND ASKED HIM FOR DOCUMENTS TO PROVE HE OWNED THE
CAR ALLEGED COUNSEL.
BUT THOMPSON GAVE THE OFFICERS A FALSE NAME AND
“PREVARICATED ABOUT HIS ADDRESS”.
AS PC EDMONDS BEGAN TO TELL HIM HE WAS UNDER ARREST AND
TOOK HOLD OF HIS ARM A FIGHT STARTED.
“WHILE THOMPSON WAS STILL STRUGGLING HIS MOTHER, MARY,
CAME RUNNING OUT OF THE HOUSE AND PUNCHED PC EDMONDS IN THE HEAD
SAYING ‘LEAVE MY SON ALONE’,” ALLEGED MR POPAT.
25 YEAR OLD JOHN THOMPSON THEN JOINED IN THE STRUGGLE
AND “PUNCHED PC HAYDEN IN THE SIDE OF THE HEAD,” THE COURT
HEARD.
PC EDMONDS GRABBED JOHN THOMPSON AND BOTH FELL TO THE
GROUND, WHERE A THIRD MAN LAWRENCE GIBBONS,20 BEGAN KICKING PC
EDMONDS IN THE RIBS.
ANTHONY THOMPSON BROKE FREE AND HIT PC EDMONDS OVER THE
HEAD WITH A PAIR OF HANDCUFFS BEFORE ESCAPING.
PC EDMONDS COLLAPSED AND OTHER OFFICERS CALLED TO THE
SCENE ARRESTED MARY THOMPSON,47, AND HER SON JOHN.
HER SECOND SON ANTHONY AND THE THIRD MAN, GIBBONS WERE
ARRESTED AFTER POLICE OFFICERS SEARCHED THE SURROUDING AREA.
DURING POLICE QUESTIONING ALL THREE MEMBERS OF THE
FAMILY DENIED HITTING THE OFFICERS.
ANTHONY THOMPSON, A SCRAP DEALER OF GAYWOOD CLOSE,
BRIXTON DENIES TWO CHARGES OF GREVIOUS BODILY HARM AND ACTUAL
BODILY HARM ON PC EDMONDS.
MARY THOMPSON, A SCHOOL DINNER LADY,OF THE SAME ADDRESS,
JOHN THOMPSON, UNEMPLOYED AND LAWRENCE GIBBONS, A SALESMAN OF
MORDAUNT STREET, BRIXTON ALL DENY ASSAULT WITH INTENT TO RESIST
ARREST.
THE TRIAL CONTINUES.
ENDS*
