Police officer ‘punched handcuffed man for spitting in his face’

A police officer punched a handcuffed man eight times after he spat in his face, a tribunal heard. PC Steven Harrison repeatedly hit Fletcher Stallard in the face after he was initially arrested for urinating in the street on 9 February last year. Mr Stallard called officers ‘faggots’ then gathered phlegm in his throat, before spitting at PC Harrison, the Metropolitan Police Misconduct Hearing in Fulham was told. The officer, based at Sutton Police Station in south London, allegedly hit…