PC Wyvill allegedly tells his colleagues that for

PC Wyvill allegedly tells his colleagues that for his ‘next form of torture’ he was going to let the car roll over Mr May’s head.

Jurors were shown video footage of Colin May lying on the road with a broken leg after he brandished a knife at police officers.

The film shows a number of police officers surrounding him including PC Wyvill threatening to hurt his shattered leg.

Paul Lewis, prosecuting said Wyvill’s ‘threatening, bullying and intimidating’ behaviour was inexcusable.

The video shows Pc Wyvill standing with his foot on Mr May’s body while dealing with him.

It is also claimed PC Stuart Grist or another officer asks if Mr may has a broken leg.

‘Officers obviously believed at a very early stage that Mr May was suffering a broken leg and were dealing with an injured man who posed no threat to anyone.

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Mr Lewis said PC Paul Butler, the driver of the car, is heard saying: ‘It was a good run down.

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PC Wyvill begins to question Mr May where the knife before allegedly saying: ‘If you don’t say where it is I am going to touch your leg.

‘You’d better think where it is.

Where did you throw it?

‘My foot is getting very close to your leg now.

Think where you threw it.

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It is claimed Pc Butler must have heard what was going on because he says: ‘That is called intimidation.

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Mr Lewis alleged that Wyvill is then heard saying: ‘For my next form of torture I am going to let the handbrake off the car and let it roll over your head.

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The court heard Mr May asks officers for an ambulance.

Wyvill says to Butler that Mr May wants to an ambulance.

Butler asks ‘Why?’ and Wyvill replies:
‘I don’t know’.

Wyvill adds: ‘You be an ambulance.

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The joke continues with Wyvill telling Butler he is a ‘very naughty ambulance’ and demands to know where the knife is.

Wyvill told interviewing officers he was not torturing Mr May but giving him first aid when he stood on him, the court heard.

‘He said he was first aid trained and he thought the best way to deal with a broken leg was to immobilise it.

Mr Wyvill said he had put his foot on him very gently to try and immobilise him, to keep him still and try to stop him damaging his leg.

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He said when he got out of his car and approached Mr May on the ground he was ‘thrashing about’ and being abusive.

Wyvill said he was left to guard Mr May alone while other officers went to look for the knife and the suspect tried to get up.

‘At one point he got to his feet.

I got him back down persuading him to stay where he was,’ Wyvill said.

He claimed Mr May then accused him of being the driver of the Astra that had hit him.

According to Wyvill Mr May told him: ‘You’re a mug working during the night while your wife is at home being screwed by a n*gger.

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Wyvill said he was particularly upset because his wife had recently suffered a miscarriage.

‘He said he put his foot on Mr May for two reasons – firstly to protect himself and secondly so that Mr May would not injure his leg any more,’ Mr Lewis said.

‘He said he did not feel very well that night, he asked for the night off but he had been refused.

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Wyvill said that threatening to stand on Mr May’s leg ‘was a very stupid thing to say.

‘He appeared to agree he had said: ”For my next form of torture I am going to let the hand break off the car and let it roll over your head.

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‘He described the comment made by him as a very stupid thing to say which I regret.

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Wyvill said he could remember another officer saying to Mr May ‘You’re an ambulance.

But he had not taken any action because ‘it was mildly amusing.

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‘He agreed he was wrong to put his foot over Mr May’s broken leg and threaten to tread on it.

‘He was wrong to threaten to allow the car to run back down over Mr May’s head.

‘He said those threats were made light heartedly.

‘He described his behaviour as being pretty unprofessional but he was asked if he wanted to apologise to Mr May for he way he behaved and he refused to do so.

‘As far as the Crown are aware to this day he has refused to do so.

Mr Lewis added: ‘It was bullying, it was threatening, it was humiliating.

‘It goes further.

It was criminal.

It was conduct we expect the police to prevent and not and not to engage in.

‘The person who was under arrest should never be the subject of the kind of behaviour PC Wyvill indulged in that night.

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The court heard the film clip was later shown on national television and featured on the front page of national newspapers.

The trial continues

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