Cop on trial for driving ‘too close’ to suspect

A police officer left a suspect with multiple fractures and a collapsed lung because he drove ‘too closely’ to his bicycle in a chase, a court heard. PC Eugene Acheampong, 28, and a colleague were responding to reports of two men breaking into cars at Wood Green, north London, on August 3, 2019. When Arnold Taylor tried to ride away on a bicycle, PC Acheampong collided with him and ran him over in his patrol car. PC Acheampong had been…