Dramatic CCTV: Policeman punches woman in the face

A policeman who punched a suspected shoplifter in the head before pinning her to the ground has been sentenced to a community order - after a judge described his victim as “no shrinking violet“. Pc James Kiddie, 45, was told by District Judge Elizabeth Roscoe that 30-year-old Sarah Reed was a woman who had “used violence in similar circumstances to avoid the consequences of her own actions and her dishonesty“. “This was no shrinking violet, this woman, but, as a police officer, obviously higher standards