Met PC guilty over bus fare arrest

A court has found Metropolitan Police officer Perry Lathwood guilty of assault, after he wrongfully arrested a woman for bus fare evasion.

The officer ‘manhandled’ Jocelyn Agyemang in Croydon, Greater London, in front of her young son in July 2023, the trial heard.

During the arrest, Lathwood — from Normans Bay in Bexhill-on-Sea, East Sussex — called Ms Agyemang a ‘daft cow’.

Ms Agyemang told the court she felt ‘very violated’, and was left with pain in her wrist and a bruised shoulder.