A Metropolitan Police officer who used pepper spray on a man as he climbed down a drainpipe attached to a high-rise apartment block has been convicted of assault, the force said. PC Luke Wenham, 31, forced entry into the man’s flat on the 12th floor of Albert Barnes House in Southwark, south London, to arrest him on suspicion of robbery. But when the man climbed out of the window and shimmied down a drainpipe, Wenham reached out and squirted him with the spray. The man managed to reach the balcony of another flat on the seventh floor, where Wenham sprayed him again as he climbed over the railing and continued down the roughly 15-floor building, using the Pava incapacitant spray (a synthetic pepper spray) that he took from a colleague as his was empty. Wenham, of the central south basic command unit, was found guilty of two counts of common assault at Westminster magistrates court on Wednesday after the incident in August last year, after an investigation by the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC). …

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