Cop cleared of baton attack but judge warns him to keep his truncheon in his trousers

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A police officer was cleared of shattering a teenager’s teeth with his steel baton – but was warned by a judge to ‘think twice’ about using it again. PC Kieran Gell, 33, admitted striking a 15-year-old on the arm as he responded to a call about youths smoking cannabis at Summerwood Road Estate in Isleworth, Middlesex. Gell claimed he ‘feared for his safety’ when the boy, who is now 18, ‘sprinted’ at him with his arm raised after refusing to…

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