Cotswolds News
Policeman to stand trial following man’s death
10:16am Thursday 11th March 2010
A POLICEMAN who faked his notes on an evening he allegedly left a man to die on the pavement will stand trial in October.
PC David Driver pleaded guilty to perverting the course of justice at Worcester Crown Court on Monday, February 22. Driver is currently suspended from duty and admitted making false entries in his police notebook from alleged witnesses to the death of Bourton-on-the-Water man Steven Hathaway.
Mr Hathaway died in the early hours of Valentine’s Day last year. He was found lying on the ground outside a house in Moore Road, Bourton. Driver, who had been on patrol at the time, is accused of leaving the scene after failing to wake Steven, who died a short time later.
During the same hearing, Driver denied misconduct in a public office, a charge he will stand trial for at Hereford Crown Court on October 2.
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