The 16-year-old, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was facing a charge of threatening behaviour. But the case collapsed when a recording of the abusive and racist language allegedly used by the arresting officer, PC David Yates, was played to the court. The young man recorded the conversation on his mobile phone.
Chris Eades, information officer at the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies, who has met the young man, said: "He was really shaken up after the experience, and Kurdish community groups have come out and said it was not an isolated incident."
PC Yates has been suspended while the police complaints commission investigates the case.
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