Met Police officer sacked for launching 'unprovoked and potentially lethal attack' on man

Jason Moody: The officer has been dismissed
Central News
Chloe Chaplain1 February 2017

A Met officer who launched a potentially lethal and unprovoked attack on a man as he walked home has been dismissed from the force.

Sergeant Jason Moody was sacked after a police misconduct hearing revealed he attacked Joseph Kamano, 48, as he walked home from a night out.

The panel heard how Moody and his two colleagues, Pcs Carl Hollman and Edward Griffiths, used force which put Mr Kamano at risk “of injury or death”.

Mr Kamano was left with a fractured finger as well as injuries to his head.

During the disciplinary hearing in Fulham, Mr Kamano told the panel he suffered “excruciating pain” during the incident in Hounslow High Street in the early hours of November 23, 2013.

He said: “I didn’t really know what was happening. I felt some blows to the back of my head, probably about five or six. I was asking ‘why?’ Someone kept saying ‘leave him, he hasn’t done anything’. I was pushed back to the fence.

“I kept asking them ‘what are you doing?’ They kept telling me to shut up. I was lifted up by the handcuffs. I remember excruciating pain. I wasn’t told if I was under arrest. If they hadn’t been in uniform I would have thought I was being attacked by a gang. It was incomprehensible.”

The misconduct panel was shown CCTV footage of Sgt Moody appearing to continuously push Mr Kamano into a metal fence, causing him to fall to the ground.

The panel found the allegations - which included using “unlawful and/or excessive force” posing a “risk of physical injury and/or death” - to be proven at a hearing that concluded on Friday.

Moody's allegations were proven as gross misconduct and he was immediately dismissed.

Pc's Hollman and Griffiths' were proven as misconduct only and PC Hollman was given management advice and PC Griffiths' was issued a written warning.

In October 2015 all three officers were cleared at the Old Bailey of charges relating to the incident.

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