This police officer’s bodycam footage has been released showing the moment England cricketer Ben Stokes was arrested outside a Bristol nightclub following a fight.
The 27-year-old is seen sat in a police car explaining to officers that he scuffled with a pair of men because abused his friends “for being gay”.
The footage was released after being shown to jurors in Stokes’ affray trial at Bristol Crown Court on Thursday.
In the video, Stokes is heard asking officers to loosen his handcuffs and queries whether there is CCTV footage in the area.
Officers are seen confirming Stokes’s personal details as he sits in the back of the police vehicle in the early hours of 25th September last year.
Stokes, who is accused of punching Ryan Hale, 27, to the ground and then allegedly knocking out Ryan Ali, 28, a short time later during a fracas outside the Mbargo nightclub.
Stokes, of Stockton Road, Castle Eden, Durham; Ali, of Forest Road, Bristol; and Hale, of Burghill Road, Westbury-on-Trym, Bristol, each deny a joint charge of affray.
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