A policeman has been jailed for 12 weeks for punching a boy in the face.
Pc Daniel Gaffney, 30, hit the 12-year-old boy so hard that a custody sergeant thought the youth's nose was broken judging by the amount of blood in the cell.
Gaffney, who had worked for Greater Manchester Police for nearly seven years, was sentenced today by deputy district judge Timothy Gascoigne at Halton Magistrates' Court in Cheshire.
The court heard that Gaffney 'had a sudden and momentary loss of temper' after the boy - who claimed to have a gun in his pants - 'tried his patience'.
But the district judge said: 'The victim was a vulnerable boy, clearly by the fact that he had difficulty in reading and writing and was in a children's home and had been in difficulties before.
Pc Daniel Gaffney, 30, hit the 12-year-old boy so hard that a custody sergeant thought the youth's nose was broken judging by the amount of blood in the cell.
Gaffney, who had worked for Greater Manchester Police for nearly seven years, was sentenced today by deputy district judge Timothy Gascoigne at Halton Magistrates' Court in Cheshire.
The court heard that Gaffney 'had a sudden and momentary loss of temper' after the boy - who claimed to have a gun in his pants - 'tried his patience'.
But the district judge said: 'The victim was a vulnerable boy, clearly by the fact that he had difficulty in reading and writing and was in a children's home and had been in difficulties before.
About time one was found guilty and sentenced instead of the usual Cover-up
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