Metropolitan Police sergeant filmed saying detainee 'deserves to be beaten up'

A Metropolitan Police sergeant who was secretly filmed saying a detainee 'deserves to be beaten up' has been sacked.The footage, which was aired in a BBC Panorama documentary, showed Sergeant Lawrence Hume calling a detainee a 'prick', a misconduct hearing in south London was told.Speaking to an undercover journalist, Sergeant Lawrence Hume said of the detainee: 'I wanted to say he's a prick, he deserves to be beaten up, but yeah, it's all recorded'.