A royal protection officer has been arrested by police colleagues after allegedly shunting a photographer off a road and threatening him with a gun.
Scott Hornby, 28, who works for The Sun, said that the officer followed him when he drove away from his house in Chafford Hundred, Essex, rammed him off the road and dragged him from his car. He said that the officer pointed a pistol at his head and demanded to know who he was.
The policeman, who protects buildings, marched him to a nearby roundabout in front of some gardeners, who were working. “The gardeners asked him to prove he was a police officer but he refused, saying, ‘I haven’t got any ID on me’,” Mr Hornby said.
Within minutes uniformed, plainclothes and armed officers arrived and the policeman was arrested.