Asked what her principal emotion was at that stage, Bettley-Smith told the court: “I was terrified – very, very frightened.”
A police officer accused of assaulting ex-Villa star Dalian Atkinson has told a jury she was “very, very frightened” when she struck him with a baton in an effort to restrain him.
Giving evidence in the third week of a re-trial at Birmingham Crown Court, Bettley-Smith denied she had acted out of anger while attempting to restrain Mr Atkinson in Meadow Close, Telford on August 15 2016.
In February 2015, the court heard, Bettley-Smith joined West Mercia Police as a full-time probationary officer – with her job being one she remained very proud of. Claiming an initial Taser firing had no effect on Mr Atkinson, Bettley-Smith told jurors: “My expectation was that Mr Atkinson would go down or do something. There was literally no reaction.”
Bettley-Smith said: “All of this happened in such a quick amount of time. It’s hard to put into words all these years later, but it was terrifying. You have had a Taser fail.
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