POLICE OFFICER FACING PRISON AND SACK FOR SICKENING ATTACKS ON PARTNER AND TODDLER
A COP who battered his policewoman partner and a two-year-old girl is facing jail.Shamed PC Barry Quinn, 28, admitted repeatedly slapping the toddler at a house in Motherwell, Lanarkshire, four months ago.
The Strathclyde Police officer also dragged his girlfriend over a couch by the hair in a separate violent row in December 2007.
Quinn, who works in Rutherglen, near Glasgow, is facing the sack after appearing last week at Hamilton Sheriff Court, where he admitted two assault charges.
He has not been suspended by force chiefs but is not allowed to deal with the public.
He will face disciplinary action once he has been sentenced by a sheriff.
Chief Superintendent John Pollok said: "A 28 year-old Strathclyde Police officer is due to appear at Hamilton Sheriff Court on August 27 in respect of his conviction for two assaults." Quinn's ex-partner has now sold the house they shared and moved away from the Lanarkshire area.
After the attack in 2007, he was initially charged with attacking her while she was holding a baby, repeatedly kicking her on the body and striking her head on a floor.
But those parts of the charges were dropped when Quinn's lawyers struck a plea deal with prosecutors.
He is now living at his mother's home in Motherwell.
Quinn refused to comment on his convictions when he was approached by a reporter.
Figures released last year revealed that almost 200 officers serving in Scottish forces had criminal records.
Most of the convictions were for road traffic offences but some have committed more serious offences, including assault, drug possession, vandalism and attempting to pervert the course of justice.
Across Scotland, 14 officers were dismissed in the past five years, including one for attempted murder in Dumfries and Galloway in 2005.
