Met policeman ‘sweared and punched 14-year-old girl’

A disgraced ex-Met cop has reportedly been sacked after he ‘smashed’ a 14-year-old girl in the face. A hearing held last Thursday (May 30) found that PC Andrew Gatt would have been dismissed had he still been a serving officer.

The attack took place on 2 October 2021 when Gatt was at child E’s home and tried to seize her mobile phone. He was accused of “pinning her to the bed”, holding her “neck” and punching “her in the face”. The findings state that “There is some agreement between the parties as to the circumstances in which the events took place, to the extent that the officer’s finger was bitten by Child E when he was trying to take her cell phone from her.”

The key to the hearing was “whether Child E was punched by the officer when he removed his hand from her mouth, or whether the officer struck Child E as a result of his hand being removed from her face.” Child E says: “He used his left hand in the gap above my phone and under my chin to push me back, and this hand was touching my neck.

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“He was applying pressure, it was like he was half choking, half holding me down while he was pulling my phone with his other hand… Then I put my head down and bit his hand. .. I bit him as hard as I could. I just wanted to get it off my neck, so I bit it as hard as I could…I felt scared and suffocated.”

Medical notes taken the next day (October 3) show that Child E reported to the accompanying nurse that the police were quite rough with her and that when an officer tried to take her phone she bit him and was hit punched by the officer. ‘.

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