A POLICE officer convicted of assaulting a man shortly before he died is set to face a misconduct review.
PC Gary Jay will appear before an Essex Police disciplinary hearing after a failed appeal at Basildon Crown Court Jay assaulted Ronnie O’Reilly and his wife, Moira, at their home in Berkeley Road, Clacton, on July 14, 2007.
Mr O’Reilly collapsed in the kitchen and died of a heart attack on the way to hospital.
Nishan Wijeratne, a spokesman for Essex Police, said: “The incident involving PC Gary Jay is going to be reviewed against police misconduct regulations in order to identify whether any breaches of the code took place.”
Jay, who was based at Clacton at the time of the incident and later transferred to Colchester on desk duties, is suspended from Essex Police pending the internal hearing.
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