Career end for PC in story fabrication about baseball-wielding attackers in churchyard

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Career end for PC in story fabrication about baseball-wielding attackers in churchyard

Officer dismissed following uncorroborated assault.

'Assault' scene: St Laurence-in-Thanet Church, Ramsgate

Date - 15th July 2019
By - Nick Hudson - Police Oracle

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An officer who lied about being knocked unconscious in an attack by four men with baseball bats in a church graveyard has been sacked. PC Michael Tovell made up a report on a fictitious assault in the grounds of St Laurence-in-Thanet Church in...

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