Benjamin Monk said that he acted in a “desperate, instinctive” wayThe police officer accused of the murder of Dalian Atkinson said he was concerned about his “completely vulnerable” colleague, who was also his girlfriend, when he tasered and kicked the professional footballer. PC Benjamin Monk told a court he acted in a “desperate, instinctive” way out of fear that he and Mary Ellen Bettley-Smith, with whom he worked at West Mercia police, would die at the hands of Atkinson. SponsoredProsecutors allege that Monk used unlawful and unreasonable force when he tasered Atkinson for six times longer than standard and kicked him in the head. Atkinson, who had serious health problems and had been behaving erratically, went into cardiac arrest en route to hospital. Monk, 43, and Bettley-Smith, 31, were in a relationship when they were

Source: The Times June 02, 2021 15:56 UTC