PRINCE: COP ‘KICKED DEPORTATION SUSPECT IN THE HEAD’

A police officer kicked a suspect in the head as he lay on the ground in an act of ‘thoughtless naked aggression’, a court heard.

PC Edward Prince, 31, lashed out at Nyrone Games with his right foot as six officers pinned him face down on the floor, it is said.

Eye-witnesses described seeing blood splattered across the victim’s face and on the pavement beneath his head after the alleged assault.

Prince was later alleged to have told Mr Games he would have suffered much worse treatment if the event had not been captured on CCTV, saying ‘You would have got a good kicking. You well deserved what you got.’

Southwark Crown Court heard today (TUE) Prince had been part of a group of officers who had chased the suspect through the streets of Croydon, south London, on November 6, 2009.

Mr Games, originally from Trinidad, was wanted for deportation after being jailed in 2007 for a string of drug related offences.

Jurors heard that Prince had been traced to an address in Croydon by officers with a warrant for his arrest, but fled the property..

He was chased through the streets to Brighton Avenue, in Croydon, where he was surrounded and hauled to the ground outside an Esso petrol station

It is alleged that in the melee Prince kicked him in the head.

Prosecutor Sam Brown told the court fellow officers witnessed the alleged attack.

‘At this point Pc Tina Bassett saw one of the officers run up to where Nyrone Games was lying on the ground, run straight up to the top of his body, move his right leg back and kicked Nyrone Games in his head area,’ he said.

‘[A second officer] also saw an officer performing a kicking action but was obstructed from seeing what he was kicking.

‘Both officers saw blood on Nyrone Games’ face and the pavement underneath his head.

‘It was observed from what they saw of his demeanour that he was angry and in pain.

He continued: ‘The actions of this defendant were thoughtless, naked aggression in the course of a melee the circumstances of which he thought would conceal his actions.’

Prince, whose address is given as Charing Cross Police Station, London, denies causing actual bodily harm.

The trial continues.

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