A distraught father who sued police after he was dragged away from his dying daughter's hospital bedside has lost his legal fight against the force.
Shocking footage obtained by The Mail on Sunday showed Dr Rashid Abbasi, an NHS consultant, being wrenched from six-year-old Zainab shortly after he was told her life support was being withdrawn.
The harrowing film from a police body camera captured him being forcibly removed from a children's intensive care unit in August 2019 by an officer holding him by the neck.
Mr Abbasi's wife Aliya, a former doctor, was also grabbed from behind, pulled from the bedside and fell backwards on to the floor of the hospital ward screaming.
The 64-year-old subsequently brought a civil claim for wrongful arrest, false imprisonment and assault and battery against Northumbria Police.
