Cop’s ‘baton attack’

A police officer hit a suspect over the head with his baton before his colleague grabbed the victim’s friend by the throat, a court heard. PC Jack Wood, 26, allegedly approached Jake Smith from behind before hitting him four times on the head in Romford on 5 January this year. PC Archie Payne, also 26, is accused of then grabbing the victim’s friend Scott Rooney, by the neck and shoving him into a wall after he asked to take a…