Warning for cop who punched spitting suspect

A police officer who repeatedly punched a handcuffed man after he spat in his face has been given a final written warning. PC Steven Harrison 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…