{"id":679277,"date":"2026-07-07T22:16:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T22:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/679277\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T22:16:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T22:16:09","slug":"peterborough-attack-pcs-face-misconduct-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/679277\/","title":{"rendered":"Peterborough attack PCs face misconduct case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Two police officers are due to face a gross misconduct hearing over their handling of an alleged assault weeks before several people were stabbed on a train.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ricky Butcher was outside a social club in Peterborough waiting for a taxi on 27 September when he said he was attacked and left with facial injuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) said one of the officers allegedly failed to conduct appropriate inquiries and both officers were alleged to have concealed this by falsely claiming no CCTV was available.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Detectives had linked the incident with the knife attack on a train on 1 November, in which 10 people were injured as it passed through Cambridgeshire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Butcher told the BBC he needed stitches for a cut to his mouth after the incident outside the Fletton Club.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said he was &#8220;fuming&#8221; that the force appeared to drop its investigation two days later given &#8220;I had five witnesses with me&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Cambridgeshire Police referred itself to the IOPC on 10 November after a complaint was made about its handling of the case.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The force had been investigating its potential prior contact with Anthony Williams &#8211; the man officers suspect of carrying out the attacks on the Doncaster to London King&#8217;s Cross service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two police officers are due to face a gross misconduct hearing over their handling of an alleged assault&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":679278,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-679277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=679277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679277\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/679278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=679277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=679277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=679277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}