A disgraced ex-Met cop would have been sacked after he ‘hit’ a 14-year-old girl in the face. A hearing held last Thursday (May 30) found PC Andrew Gatt would have been sacked had he still been a serving officer.
The attack happened on October 2 2021 when Gatt was in the home of Child E, and tried to seize her mobile phone. He was accused of ‘pinning her down to the bed’, holding ‘her throat’ and punching ‘her in the face’. The findings read that ‘There is some agreement between the parties as to the circumstances in which the events occurred, in so far as the officer’s finger was bitten by Child E when he was attempting to remove her mobile phone from her’.
The crux of the hearing was over ‘whether Child E was punched by the officer when he withdrew his hand from her mouth or the officer struck Child E as a result of withdrawing his hand from her face’. Child E says: “He used his left hand in the gap above the top of my phone and beneath my chin to push me back and this hand was touching my throat.
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“He was applying pressure, it was like he was half choking, half pinning me down whilst he pulled at my phone with the other hand…I then put my head down and bit his hand…..I bit him as hard as I could. I just wanted to get him off my throat, that’s why I bit him as hard as I could….I felt scared and suffocated.”
Medical notes taken the following day (October 3) show that Child E ‘reported to the nurse attending her that the police were quite rough with her and that when an officer attempted to take her phone, she bit them and she was punched by the officer’.
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