Police officer attacks woman and keeps job

^If they keep this dreg after this, they will be facing case ofter case of abuse of power.^
And more and more women will get attacked

He is exactly who is an inappropriate candidate for working in this kind of role; police, security, armed forces. Full of his own importance, drunk on his own tiny but of power, just dying to abuse it.
If they keep this dreg after this, they will be facing case ofter case of abuse of power.

This is shocking beyond words.
That poor woman. He is a thug and a criminal and should be in prison.
The judge should be accountable for his criminally unfair sentencing.

You couldn’t make this shit up 😡 honestly, why keep such incompetent recruits?
I’d seen his victim on tv earlier. That is no justice what so ever.

Horrific. That he hasn’t been jailed AND gets to keep his job... it only got this far because the police were slow to investigate, CPS said not enough evidence to prosecute but the victim appealed... it’s all on cctv... what else do women have to suffer before their aggressors are jailed? And he could still keep his job... how has he not been automatically fired??? Talk about how easy it is to assault women, get off Scott free and have no repercussions

Meanwhile the victim was the one who had to fight to bring this to court, appeal the CPS and now has no justice. Seriously wtf.

AdHominemNonSequitur

He pleaded guilty, doesn't get more guilty than that

Innocent until proven guilty. If he is proven guilty and is still in employment after that that is truly terrible.

@alwayslucky DH watches that.

Awful. The police need to pull their socks up

It used to be said that if you had a boxing or martial arts background that the judge would take that into account and give a harsher sentence due to the training you'd had in how to hurt people.

Sounds like this guy was using his specialist training.

His lawyer argued he should not have to do community service because it would be “difficult” for him to work with criminals.

Surely that should be 'other criminals'? How the hell did he get away with just a 3 month curfew?

Look at crimebodge on youtube. (One with 27 proved offences, still in the force)

Well he wasn't going to pick on someone his own size now was he?

Thanks for linking Mercy that footage is awful she looks so tiny as he’s wrapped around her; he has complete bodily control.

She’s had to be so brave & persistent to force the police to do their job - how many times has a woman not have sufficient resources (of whatever kind) & it’s been swept under the carpet?

YY @Zeugma

Channel 4 news report here

They're running this as a lead story on Channel 4 news now.

Apparently he tried to claim that she attacked him first. Incredible.

A neighbour's CCTV filmed his attack and they just showed part of it. It just defies belief.

Yes, the rage should be directed at the sentence. What was the judge thinking?

A bloody curfew?!!!! We’re basically all under curfew in lockdown; it’s barely even a punishment.

This is just sick

Emma

23 MIN AGO
The West Midlands police deputy chief constable, Vanessa Jardine, said: “Oliver Banfield was removed from public-facing police duties after the assault and while the investigation by Warwickshire police was being carried out.
“To protect the criminal case we’ve not been able to carry out our own misconduct investigation until its conclusion.
“Now sentencing has taken place, our investigation will be carried out and PC Banfield faces allegations of gross misconduct and is currently suspended.
“We understand the strength of feeling surrounding the desperately sad death of Sarah Everard and concerns on the issue of women’s safety but it would not be appropriate for us to comment further at this stage.
“Our role is to protect the public, who should be able to trust us. We therefore hold all our officers to the highest standards and we will take appropriate action against anyone whose actions fall below what is expected.”

He won't be keeping his job.

But what an absolute disgrace.

These are the people who are going undercover to protect women

There are no words to express my anger and disgust.