A police officer who was recorded on a mobile phone allegedly racially abusing a black suspect inside a van has been charged, reversing an earlier decision in which prosecutors decided he should not face charges.
The suspect, Mauro Demetrio, 21, used his mobile phone to record the encounter. In January the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) initially decided not to bring criminal charges against MacFarlane or another police officer who Demetrio alleged strangled him in the back of a police van. Last month the CPS agreed to review its decision after being threatened with legal action by Demetrio's lawyer, Michael Oswald.
