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| Police officers to face magistrates after arrest at Bolton anti-EDL rally | |
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| Two serving Greater Manchester police officers have been summonsed to appear before magistrates more than two years after a Unite Against Fascism protester was filmed being struck in the face during a rally. | |
| Alan Clough, 65, from Radcliffe, Bury, was protesting against the English Defence League in Bolton in March 2010 when he was struck, fell to the ground and was subsequently arrested. | Alan Clough, 65, from Radcliffe, Bury, was protesting against the English Defence League in Bolton in March 2010 when he was struck, fell to the ground and was subsequently arrested. |
| He was due to stand trial on a charge of using threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour in October 2010, but the Crown Prosecution Service dropped the case after footage of the rally was obtained. | |
| Inspector Robert Cantrell, 39, and PC Alan Glover, 31 – both members of the Greater Manchester force's tactical aid unit – have been summoned to appear before York magistrates court on 11 September. The summons relates to a charge of perverting the course of justice. | |
| The CPS confirmed it passed a guidance file back to the Independent Police Complaints Commission to go ahead with the charges on those counts. | The CPS confirmed it passed a guidance file back to the Independent Police Complaints Commission to go ahead with the charges on those counts. |