[RiversEdge]

A lawyer was condemned for her 'despicable' suggestion yesterday that a heroic police officer should be disciplined for saving his life with a Taser during a vicious machete attack.
Sophie Khan


The row erupted as smirking Muhammad Rodwan, 56, was jailed for 16 years for attacking PC Stuart Outten after he stopped his white van because it was not insured.

The 29-year-old victim, later dubbed Britain's bravest policeman, survived the onslaught last August only by firing his Taser twice at the homeless driver.

Solicitor Sophie Khan has defended the convicted criminal, saying he acted in 'self defence' in the face of 'excessive force' from the police officer.

PC Outten had fallen to the ground as Rodwan came 'in for the kill' with a 2ft rusty blade.



The thug was acquitted of attempted murder on Thursday and convicted of a lesser offence of wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm after jurors were not told about his violent past.

The trial judge ruled that evidence about a 'strikingly similar' machete attack by Rodwan on two men in 1996 and other convictions for rape and drugs should not go before jurors due to the length of time since the offence.

But yesterday solicitor Sophie Khan, who has represented people injured by Tasers and campaigns against excessive use of the weapon, defended the convicted criminal by saying he acted in 'self defence' in the face of 'excessive force' from PC Outten.
Muhammad Rodwan


She wrote on Twitter she was surprised the Metropolitan Police 'haven't started disciplinary action against PC Outten for assault and battery on Muhammad Rodwan'.

She added the officer's actions 'were in part found to be an excessive use of force' and that the case had shown 'there remains a risk to public by police misuse of Taser'.
Stuart Outten


PC Outten suffered six severe head wounds and a court heard he could have died had he not bravely fired off his Taser in a bid to disarm Rodwan.



Video captured Rodwan swinging the blade at PC Outten's head, fracturing his skull and leaving him with six severe head wounds.

Bleeding heavily from deep gashes to the head, broken fingers and a wound to the arm, PC Outten shouted at a passerby to pass his radio so he could call for help.

Her criticism of the victim provoked outrage yesterday as Metropolitan Police Federation chairman Ken Marsh said:

'This police officer stopped a man lawfully and politely asked him to get out of the vehicle because he did not have insurance.

'He responded by getting out a machete and brutally attacking him and my colleague very nearly lost his life. If it wasn't for that Taser, he would have died.



'These comments are utterly despicable – she is not only inciting violence, but she is condemning a hero who detained a dangerous offender while he was fighting for his life.'

Mrs Justice Carr, sitting at the Old Bailey yesterday, rejected the notion that PC Outten had used excessive force, describing how 'arrogant' Rodwan flew into a rage when he was stopped by police for having no insurance in Leyton, East London, on August 7.

The judge told the criminal: 'This was a brutal and shocking attack. I reject the unattractive submission that [PC Outten] was using excessive force in circumstances when you had assaulted him and forcibly resisted arrest.'

She praised the officer's 'presence of mind and fortitude' in tasering his attacker. Footage from his body-worn video shows PC Outten fighting for his life after Rodwan stabbed him repeatedly, fracturing his skull.

Bleeding from six gashes to the head and one to the arm, the officer tasered Rodwan twice and brought him to the ground just as he prepared to strike again.



The judge told Rodwan, who had claimed he was acting in self-defence: 'I detect not a shred of remorse or insight on your part but rather belligerent arrogance.'

She ordered him to serve at least two thirds of his 16-year sentence, with a further three years on extended licence.

[RUTHIE7]

This is London now. Birmingham, Bristol, Reading, Manchester... all the big cities. I'm sad to say that it seems to be 90% black black people carrying weapons like machetes.

They have absolutely ZERO respect for the law and the drug situation is now an epidemic. Even the junior schools are being flooded with drugs and marijuana is so common, my next door neighbour smokes all day and night. Everyone does it. I've tried it for pain relief but it made me so sick I cant even smell the smoke without wanting to vomit.

Firearms are flooding big cities as well and law enforcement dont stand a chance against these thugs anymore.

London is now 'Londonistan.' Its a war zone.

I 100% think our Police Force need to be armed now.

It's definately time that the law protected the men and woman out there standing up against criminals armed to the teeth.
What's a tazer going to do when they're pointing a gun at you or they have a machete and they're so high or intoxicated that their systems don't react immediately.

Police Officers need to travel in THREE'S and all have cameras.
They need to be armed, to the fucking teeth, and wear new uniforms that are BLACK with high viz armour. The suits need to look intimidating.

They need helmets and the suits, bullet proof.

They need to have vehicles that are literally able to withstand an armed attack, and be able to spray tear gas, drop spikes to stop vehicles, and cages with glass partitioning put in all police vehicles as standard.

Their vehicles need to be able to ram with a ramming bar on the front and back as well.

If an officers vehicle is taken by a perpetrator, the officers can press a button to lock the perpetrator in the vehicle so he cant get out, and the engine stops as soon as that 'lock' is activated.

Wish I could put this forward to the Medtropolitan Police Department and our Government but they're all a bunch of 'politically Correct Cissies!'

[kellyhound]

in the course of this struggle PC Outten used considerable force, pulling his hair so that several of his dreadlocks fell out. PC Outten also put his left hand around his neck in order to subdue him.

i think the cop was real nice after that pos wouldn't obey orders and even grabbed a machete.
so stfu lawyer cunt.