LONDON – Former Aston Villa striker Dalian Atkinson died after being tasered three times and kicked at least twice to the head by an"angry" police officer, a jury heard on Tuesday at the start of a murder trial.
She told the court that the footballer, who had serious health problems including end-stage renal failure, moved towards the officers after they were called to a disturbance in the town of Telford, 30 miles from Birmingham, at about 1:30 am on August 15, 2016. "And PC Monk continued to depress the trigger for over six times the length of a standard five-second phase. The Taser was deployed for 33 seconds.""At least two kicks were delivered by him to Dalian Atkinson's forehead with enough force to leave the imprints of the pattern of the laces from the top of his boot on two separate areas of Mr Atkinson's forehead."
The prosecutor added of Monk:"In kicking Dalian Atkinson in the head not once, but on two separate occasions, PC Monk was not, the prosecution say, acting in self-defence or in defence of another.
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