British justice on Tuesday sentenced a police officer to eight years in prison for killing former professional footballer Dalian Atkinson, who died in 2016 after suffering a 33-second taser discharge.
This 43-year-old police officer, Benjamin Monk, was convicted last Wednesday of the manslaughter of the former footballer after six weeks of trial at the Birmingham court (central England).
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Judge Melbourne Inman stressed on Tuesday that the sentence handed down to the police officer "
must reflect the importance of maintaining public confidence in our police
". The victim's family argued that "
it should not be necessary for a famous footballer to die for the criminal justice system to function properly
." "
We hope that more families can obtain justice in the future, whether the deceased is a well-known person or not,
" she said.