Officer punched an autistic man in the head seven times during arrest

Police officer, 27, who punched autistic man in the head seven times during an arrest is jailed

• PC Jack Williams was recorded on an officer’s body camera beating Tariq Evans
• He punched him seven times when he was in leg ties, handcuffs and a spit hood 

A policeman repeatedly punched an autistic man in the head while he was restrained in the back of a police van, leaving him with memory loss and nightmares. 

Tariq Evans, who is now 23, lost his job and suffers nightmares and headaches following the vicious attack, a court heard.

PC Jack Williams, 27, was recorded on another officer’s body camera beating Mr Evans after chasing him on suspicion of criminal damage, the BBC reported.

After being persued by several South Wales Police officers through Swansea, he was brought to the ground in the Morriston area of the city.

There he was thrown into the back of the van and ‘completely restrained’ with leg ties, handcuffs and a spit hood.

Tariq Evans, who is now 23, (pictured) lost his job and suffers nightmares and headaches following the vicious attack, a court heard

PC Jack Williams, 27, (pictured) was recorded on another officer’s body camera beating Mr Evans after chasing him on suspicion of criminal damage, the BBC reported

Mr Evans – who has attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and autism – was heard shouting in pain.

And after calling him abusive names police video caught Williams dealing out seven blows to his head.

As he climbed into the back of the van he shouted ‘stop biting me’, although no attempts to bite him were caught on camera. 

Williams was found guilty of assault by beating in August, as he was condemned as ‘shocking’ by District Judge Sophie Toms.

She said: ‘You took your opportunity to take your rage out on [Mr Evans]. Your behaviour was quite frankly, shocking.’

The way in which he was arrested was further told to have been ‘forcibly and unnecessary’ while the Judge said it was an ‘abuse of power by someone in a position of trust’ who had ‘shown no remorse’.

She added that Mr Evans ‘was in the most vulnerable position, he did not move, he did not deflect any punches.’ She continued: ‘He was in a small metal cage unable to move or deflect the blows’. 

Mr Evans – who has attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and autism – was heard shouting in pain

The beaten man’s mother Sarah-Lee Evans, 52, said the family had learnt of the incident after seeing a video on Facebook.

Shocked, she accused Williams of taking the law into his own hands. 

‘There were around six or seven coppers on top of him, but I could hear his voice and he was basically shouting out and calling for me and saying he hadn’t done anything wrong,’ she told the BBC.

Pictures show Mr Evans with a black eye and injuries across his face, although the court heard that it is not possible to say which had been caused by Williams and which were caused by the rest of the arrest process. 

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