An officer with Greater Manchester Police has been jailed for 12 weeks for punching a boy in the face.
PC Daniel Gaffney, 30, of Northwich, Cheshire, hit the 12-year-old so hard that a custody sergeant thought the boy's nose was broken.
Gaffney, who had worked for Greater Manchester Police for nearly seven years, was sentenced 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" with difficult obstructive behaviour.
>> Vote in our latest web poll
The full article contains 106 words and appears in n/a newspaper.
