Watch: Man restrained by Met Police thinks he's being robbed

A Metropolitan Police officer has been sacked for gross misconduct over what a disciplinary panel found to be an unlawful stop and search of an innocent man.

PC Martin Binala was serving on the Met's violence suppression unit at the time of the incident in Hounslow in September 2021.

He and his colleague PC Stuart Dunne, who was found guilty of the lesser disciplinary charge of misconduct, were ruled to have breached police standards of professional behaviour.

The disciplinary panel heard the victim needed hospital treatment for his injuries and believed he was being attacked by robbers.

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