Overview

• The civil claim is being tried at Central London County Court with competing accounts heard and no judgment yet.
• Alexander Loxton, 36, alleges an officer repeatedly stamped on his left foot and ankle during a 2016 encounter at Kennington Police Station, causing permanent ligament damage.
• Court evidence for the claimant says he was handcuffed, searched, pressed against a wall and struck as multiple officers intervened.
• Met lawyers argue he was loitering, refused to cooperate and resisted, requiring five staff to control him, with any force described as reasonable including placing a foot on his left foot to keep him still.
• Loxton, a Royal Ballet–trained performer who danced in the West End and at Buckingham Palace, seeks damages for a lost elite career and now works in security, saying he cannot perform the jumps and landings required at top level.