A YOUNG man who was "hoping initially to calm the situation" when police were called to a disturbance ended up being pepper sprayed after shouting in an officer's face while topless.
Police officers were called to Hambleton Court, in Southgate, at about 7.20pm on March 28.
When they arrived they found an injured person in a communal hallway, who they spoke to.
At Crawley Magistrates' Court on April 29, prosecutor Melanie Wotton explained how Alexander Verster then got involved.
She told the...
