PC John Richardson (right) and David Littlemore (left)

Two Peterborough police officers who dragged an innocent man to the ground and stamped on his hand after mistaking him for a missing dementia suffer escaped immediate jail terms.

PCs David Littlemore and John Richardson were out looking for a man in his 70s with Alzheimer’s who had disappeared from his home.

They saw victim John Morgan, 59, who was sitting on a park bench as he was out with his Jack Russell Winston.