Readers may remember the case of a disabled man sitting on a wall at one of the Southampton protests, who was dragged to the ground and violently beaten, for no reason, by several police thugs. It was filmed. He was former paratrooper Matt Styler, aged 50, and he was arrested and charged with police assault. This week he was in court, but didn't fall into the same trap laid for Lucy Connolly, no. He pleaded not guilty and was released, there being no case against him.
Prosecutors have dropped a case against a former soldier accused of assaulting a police officer during a protest in Southampton following the death…
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