
originally by: Daily Mail
published: 24 April 2013
Two police officers allowed a vulnerable man to suffocate and die in front of them without trying to help, a court has heard.
PCs Maurice Leigh and Neil Bowdery, of Kent Police, have pleaded not guilty to misconduct in public office over the death of paranoid schizophrenic Colin Holt in August 2010.
Maidstone Crown Court [was told] that police had been called to the 52-year-old’s flat in Gillingham, Kent, to bring him back to hospital as he was subject to a Mental Health Act order.

