Pc sacked for using CS gas on sick boy’s father

A police officer who sprayed a father with CS gas as he rushed his son to hospital has been sacked.

Pc Graeme Thornhill, 34, also hit the father, whose son suffered from sickle cell anaemia, with a police baton and kicked him as he lay facedown on a grass verge after he was pulled over for erratic driving in Nottingham. On Friday he was found guilty of gross misconduct for using “excessive and disproportionate force” and dismissed from Nottinghamshire Police.