Cop in court for using pepper spray

A Metropolitan Police officer twice used pepper spray while trying to arrest a suspect who ended up scaling a 15-storey tower block to escape, a court heard. PC Luke Wenham, 31, allegedly used excessive force while discharging the weapon to restrain Carl Cumberbatch in Elephant and Castle on August 17 last year. Mr Cumberbatch clambered up the side of the high rise building near Meadow Row but climbed back down after a tense stand-off lasting several hours, it is said….