West Midlands police Oliver Banfield was drunk when he grabbed his victim by the neck, according to a dark street The mirror. He used self-control techniques he learned in police training to put the woman in the head. He dragged her across the sidewalk and shouted that she was a ‘fucking snail’.
In court, Officer Banfield’s lawyer told the judge that his client should be released from community service because he is a police officer and it will be ‘difficult’ for him to work with criminals. Ironically, since Banfield himself is a violent criminal.
Taking all things into account, Judge Banfield sentenced him to an evening watch. For the next 14 weeks he must stay home between 19:00 and 07:00.
That’s it.
Of The mirror:
[The victim] suffers from anxiety, stress, panic attacks and insomnia and undergoes therapy and counseling.
[She] said a police officer attacked her, shook her belief system to the core.
“I often wonder if the impact of the attack would have been so severe if my attacker had not been a police officer,” she said.
‘While I was struggling to get to safety, I was sure this drunk man was fulfilling a violent cop fantasy.