@SE10Firstly thanks to SE10 for pointing me in the right direction to take this matter further.
Since my trip to hospital yesterday (where the injuries to my wrists were recorded) I've been in touch with the
football
supporters
federation who has forwarded my complaint onto a solicitor regarding Saturdays events detailed in "never trust a charlton fan" thread.
This was the solicitors response"...Complaint yes but also possible claim. You can’t simply arrest two unconnected people because one of the them ‘must’ have caused criminal damage. Also injuries amount to an assault.
Would be very small though- approx. £1000 in total. (1 hour detention, and minor injuries)"
I will update this, hopefully this thread will help anyone who in the future finds themselves in a similar position
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when i was younger i had a set too with the OB which resulted in some quite substantial injuries including a boot mark across my back and one on the side of my head a black eye bust lip and a few cracked ribs
when it was challenged and a formal complaint made i was lifted virtually twice a week for months until it was deemed better by myself to just not pursue and to officially drop the case
it didnt matter at the time as i was a bit of a scally
they look after their own your face coyuld end up distributed at every football ground just for incovience sake
and you could end up with loads of section 27s
Did it stop after you drop it?
my brother was witness to the state of me in the original incident and as they were spreading and handcuffing me in the van after the kicking i had took to give me some more, i saw him looking in the van reminstrating with a bird cozzer, i told him to have a good look at me as i needed him to bere witness if i looked worse
the bird cozzer heard this and told the other 3 OB to not do any more to my head i then had a sustained kicking in the body legs and feet for a ten min journey, a full 24 hrs in nick and sent home in a paper suit with a pass to get on a bus the sunday morning at 4am that would not take me the full journey home and it was november so freezing
all beacuse i took exception to a police officer smacking a girl i was out with in the mouth with his back of hand when she questioned why our black friend had been stopped and searched and not us,
like i say i was no saint i did get confrontational with the cozzer in the situation and i had not had a free life of trouble so was well known to them
but it all get very very silly very very quickly, i still have a mark against my history for violence towards police which i have never done
Things happen move on
If that copper scum PC Harwood can get away with killing Ian Tomlinson on camera then I don't hold out much hope for you my old mate!
The evidence has been photo'd and the hospital have a record, solicitor reckons compensation likely without an apology. I get what your saying but I feel like I've gotta see it through for the above reasons.
I thought they were meant to be used as a restraining tool rather than a form of torture. Solicitor reckons they should of only been used if they felt i was gonna kick off or run away.
Good luck.