Three Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) officers are due to appear in court next week on assault charges relating to the arrest of a 17-year-old boy in Tooting, following an investigation by the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC).
PS Dave Mattock, 36, A/PS Callum Ferguson, 26, and PC Jack Beadle, 26, from the MPS’ South West Command Unit, are due to appear at the Westminster Magistrates Court on Monday 24 October charged with assault by beating.
The charges relate to an incident on 2 April this year in which the officers stopped and removed the child and a group of friends from a bus after the officers allegedly saw a disturbance on the bus.
Our investigation followed a referral by the MPS in April after it received a complaint that excessive force was used by the officers.
In September we passed a file of evidence to the Crown Prosecution Service, which authorised the charges contrary to section 39 of the Criminal Justice Act 1988.
