Taxi union boss found not guilty of assaulting police with loud megaphone

Mr Farrar is the head of the United Private Hire Drivers' branch of the Independent Workers Union of Great Britain .

James Farrar was participating in a protest in Parliament Square last March against plans to make Uber and minicab driversafter it was claimed he operated a loudhailer near Constable Ann Spinks and Sergeant James Lewis during the protest. But, part way through the trial, Judge Philip Bartle QC told the jury at Southwark Crown Court to find the defendant not guilty.

Dismissing jurors at the end of the prosecution case on Thursday, Judge Bartle said he accepted evidence that each officer"suffered immediate pain and injury to their ears."But he added that"the facts did not justify the offence in either case of assault by beating because the offence requires unlawful application of force".

Using the megaphone"was something he needed to use in order to communicate what he wanted to say to the crowd," Judge Bartle said.

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