Met police officer secretly filmed boasting about hitting suspect

The undercover footage shows PC Jason Sinclair-Birt tell a colleague he 'whacked the s**t out of the back of his legs' while discussing the use of force on a detainee, an accelerated misconduct hearing in south London was told on Friday. But the officer did not use the excessive force he described, did not draw his baton, and later said he was embellishing an account of a previous incident for 'comedic effect', James Berry KC said on behalf of the appropriate authority.