{"id":21749,"date":"2010-09-01T16:30:13","date_gmt":"2010-09-01T14:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishforum.com.tr\/en\/content\/?p=21749"},"modified":"2011-09-02T13:56:31","modified_gmt":"2011-09-02T10:56:31","slug":"special-constable-jailed-for-assaulting-soldier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2010\/09\/01\/special-constable-jailed-for-assaulting-soldier\/","title":{"rendered":"Special constable jailed for assaulting soldier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A special constable who assaulted an off-duty soldier while attempting to arrest him was jailed for three years today.<\/p>\n<p>40-year-old Peter Lightfoot attacked Lance Corporal Mark Aspinall outside a bar in Wigan, Greater Manchester, in the early hours of July 27, 2008.<\/p>\n<p>The incident was caught on CCTV, which showed Lightfoot pushing the soldier&#8217;s head into the ground and striking him with a police helmet.<\/p>\n<p>He was found guilty of the assault on the soldier, who served in Afghanistan and Iraq, by a jury at Manchester Minshull Street Crown Court last month.<\/p>\n<p>Lightfoot has now been jailed for one year for perjury, in relation to evidence he gave in court, and two years for assault, to run consecutively.<\/p>\n<p>Two other officers involved in the incident, Sergeant Stephen Russell, 34, and Pc Richard Kelsall, 29, were cleared of assaulting the soldier.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"removed_link\" title=\"http:\/\/itn.co.uk\/3338f3d802c8df4da6a26d682310e04f.html\">ITN<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A special constable who assaulted an off-duty soldier while attempting to arrest him was jailed for three years today. 40-year-old Peter Lightfoot attacked Lance Corporal Mark Aspinall outside a bar in Wigan, Greater Manchester, in the early hours of July 27, 2008. The incident was caught on CCTV, which showed Lightfoot pushing the soldier&#8217;s head [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":187861,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[94,922],"tags":[3581,3580,3579],"class_list":["post-21749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uk","category-world","tag-greater-manchester","tag-peter-lightfoot","tag-special-constable"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21749\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}