‘End this murder farce’

A former police officer called on a judge to drop a ‘farcical’ manslaughter charge against him after a jury failed to reach a verdict. Oliver Hurley, 63, insists he pushed 56-year-old Manolito Chando out of an elevator in self-defence after the Croatian called him a ‘big Irish bas**rd’ and threatened his life. Mr Chando, who was drunk, bumped his head when he hit the floor at the homeless shelter near Westminster Abbey on 24 March last year. Doctors put him…