A quick search revealed the following from the IPCC website:
Three Greater Manchester Police officers summonsed over Wigan incident
Three Greater Manchester Police officers have been summonsed to face criminal charges following an Independent Police Complaints Commission managed investigation into an incident in Wigan on 27 July 2008.
Sgt Stephen Russell, Pc Richard Kelsall and Special Constable Peter Lightfoot, who are all based in Wigan, have been summonsed to face charges of Section 47 assault and conspiracy to pervert the course of justice. SC Lightfoot has also been summonsed to face a charge of perjury.
The charges relate to an allegation that excessive force was used during the arrest of 24-year-old Bolton man Mark Aspinall in Wigan Town Centre in the early hours of Sunday 27 July. The IPCC managed the Greater Manchester Police investigation into the incident.
The three officers will appear before Oldham Magistrates Court on 15 July 2009.
So, having searched and found no trace of any court decision in this matter, I called Oldham Magistrates Court.
The nice lady told me that the matter had not been dealt with at Oldham magistrates court and refused to tell me where it had been moved to.
When I asked her under which guidelines or legislation the refusal stemmed from, she passed me onto her manager who immediately told me that it had been moved to the Crown Court and even gave me their number.
The crown court were very efficient and told me that the case would be heard on the 5th of July 2010. It has been split into two:
Lightfoot and Russell Case no: T20097569
Kelsall Case no: T20097581
(During my browsing I noted that the first magistrates Aspinall found himself in front of on charges of assault found him guilty DESPITE seeing that footage. /CRAZY! )
The wheels turn slow but I will continue to watch with interest.
Is there a support group for victims?my father was killed, he was 75
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