A jury has been showing video images of a police officer of Wales del Norte, allegedly strangling and assaulting a man while making a trial.
PC Richard Williams, 43, denies intentional strangulation and assault that causes real bodily damage to Steven Clark in May 2023.
Caernarfon Crown Court heard that PC Williams would affirm that the force he used was “reasonable.”
In the video of the Police Chamber that is reproduced in the jury, a male officer is heard repeatedly shout: “Stop resisting.”
When the case opened, prosecutor Richard Edwards said it was alleged that PC Williams kept Clark in a head key, on the floor in the front garden of a house in Porthmmadog, and hit him repeatedly on his face.
Edwards said that when two officers had one leg about to pay Mr. Clark, he had been trying to explain that he had a bad vote to an accident. A sleeve had his leg on Mr. Clark’s left wrist, but he had pain due to the previous injury, said the lawyer.
The prosecutor said he intensified the three who went to the ground in the garden. According to PC Williams, Mr. Clark resisted trial for alleged common assault.
“All this happened at lunchtime in a busy Residential Street in PorthmMangag,” Edwards said.
A witness recorded the incident in the camera from a nearby bedroom window and saw Mr. Clark being tasks of a police truck.
“Swelling and bruises were clear to see,” Edwards said.
“Mr. Clark suffered a significant swelling in his left eye after this incident.
“A police officer does not have a loose rein to do what he wants to make a trial.”
Edwards said that PC Williams’ statement was using a reasonable force to judge Mr. Clark, who, he says, resisted.
“The crown says that the accused’s actions have gone beyond reasonable force and that he is a physicist attacked to Steven Clark,” he said.
The trial continues.
