A senior police officer who was forced to make a cringing apology to a public inquiry into the fatal shooting of Anthony Grainger for adding detail into his log of the incident he couldn't have known at the time has made a bid to throw out disciplinary proceedings against him.
A QC acting for Steve Heywood, now retired, called for a stay of the action against his client, accusing Greater Manchester Police of an 'omnishambles' over delays and a last-minute bid to adjourn the case.
A police marksman identified only as Q9 shot dead Mr Grainger, a Salford-raised father-of-two, by firing a single bullet from his Heckler and Koch MP5 sub-machine gun during an armed swoop in the village of Culcheth, near Warrington, in March 2012, where GMP
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