22:03 EDT, 2 March 2021
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A cop walks into a bar, greets a seated female patron, is shoved so hard he loses his balance and is crudely told to get lost.
But Senior Constable Mark Follington now admits the story he wrote after violently arresting Anya Bradford in 2019 was very different to what occurred.
'At the time of writing this narrative, I did it to the best of my knowledge without having viewed the (CCTV) footage,' he told a Sydney court on Tuesday.
Follington, 61, has pleaded not guilty to tampering with evidence with intent to mislead a court and four other offences over the May 2019 arrest in southwest Sydney.