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The Met Police are set to pay out millions after being sued by a young black man left paralysed from the chest down when a cop Tasered him.
Jordan Walker-Brown, 27, broke his back when he fell backwards over a fence in Harringay, north London, after being Tasered by PC Imran Mahmood during the coronavirus lockdown in May 2020.
The officer said he feared Mr Walker-Brown - who was running away and unarmed at the time he was shot with the Taser - had a knife and believed he needed to be 'contained'.
PC Mahmood was cleared of GBH following the incident at a trial in May last year. But Mr Walker-Brown is also suing the Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis for compensation over the life-changing injuries he suffered.
The High Court heard this week that the Metropolitan Police have admitted liability in relation to Mr Walker-Brown's claim and now face paying out millions of pounds in damages and court costs.
Jordan Walker-Brown who was left paralysed when Metropolitan Police constable Imran Mahmood, 36, tasered him during Covid lockdown
PC Mahmood pictured attending Southwark Crown Court last year before he was found not guilty of unlawfully inflicting grievous bodily harm on Jordan Walker-Brown
A High Court hearing before judge Master Richard Armstrong this week revealed that Mr Walker-Brown has been running a civil claim for damages over his injuries and that the Met Police are now in line to make a 'chunky seven-figure' payout to him.
Master Armstrong told the court: 'This is a claim for damages for assault and breach of human rights. The claimant was Tasered, causing him to fall from a wall and rendering him paraplegic from the chest down. Liability is admitted and this is a quantum dispute.'
Kate Boakes, for Mr Walker-Brown, told the judge that the compensation claim had been delayed by the criminal proceedings against Mr Mahmood in which he was accused of GBH.
'It took a long time for the admission of liability to come through because we were waiting for the conclusion of the criminal trial,' she said.
She told the judge the full value of the claim has yet to be calculated, but said: 'This is going to be a high value case'.
'It's clearly a seven-figure case. It's a chunky seven figure case, but I cant be more specific than that,' she told the judge, adding, 'the claimant is very young and he's suffered a very severe injury and its a very complicated case'.
She also told the judge that the claimant's budget for court costs was £1.26m, which Master Armstrong described as 'eye watering'.
Kate Lumbers, for the Met Police, told the judge that they regard the claim as being worth between £1m and £2m.
