"I will break your f****** neck": Police officer 'grabbed naked woman covered in salad cream by the throat' in Hilton Hotel
12.09.2023 - 07:59
/ manchestereveningnews.co.uk
A police constable grabbed a naked, bleeding woman - covered in salad cream - around the throat and warned her he would "break your f***** neck" during a chaotic arrest at the Hilton hotel.
Patrol officer PC Robert Marshall, a 13-year veteran of the force, stands accused of multiple breaches of professional standards around use of force, duties and responsibilities, courtesy and respect and discreditable conduct, and appeared at a misconduct hearing at Merseyside Police HQ, chaired by independent lawyer Nick Hawkins.
PC Marshall, who has studied ju-jitsu for six years and was trained in how people can be "choked out", claims the woman had tried to grab his neck and later tried to punch him and he acted to protect himself and his colleagues from injury.
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The misconduct panel heard Merseyside Police had been called to the hotel, on Thomas Steers Way in Liverpool City Centre, late on July 26, 2022, after staff at the hotel witnessed a man pushing a woman to the face in the bar area.
PC Marshall, 37, attended the scene and met another officer, PC Eleanor Pierce, who was already in the lobby area.. The officers were joined by PCs David Pye and Bradley Matthews, and were guided to a room by Hilton staff, reports the ECHO.
The woman, referred to during the hearing as "Miss B", answered the door naked apart from a bra, and covered in what turned out to be salad cream from a broken bottle in the room, which had been trashed. PC Pierce entered the room to speak with Miss B, while her partner, referred to as "Mr A", was escorted into the corridor and spoken to by the three male officers.
Oliver Williamson, presenting the case on behalf