A police chief has been forced to issue a shameful apology to the family of a father-of-two who died in a cell while officers who should have been monitoring him watched porn.
Lloyd Butler, 39, was arrested on suspicion of being drunk and incapable on August 4 2010 - and died in custody three hours later after suffering a cardiac arrest.
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An inquest held in June heard officers should have taken him to hospital for monitoring but instead brought him to Stechford Police Station in Birmingham and dumped him in a cell.
And rather than keeping a watch every 15 minutes on Mr Butler, officers from West Midlands Police viewed sex websites, and watched Sky Sports on police computers.
Shocking footage taken at the time showed a group of police officers laughing and swearing while Mr Butler died just feet away in a custody cell.
CCTV also showed officers earlier dragging him out of a police van by his legs causing his trousers to fall down.
The three members of staff involved were all allowed to keep their jobs despite being found guilty of misconduct.
Toady Chris Sims, Chief Constable of West Midlands Police, issued a an apology to Mr Butler's mother Janet and said lessons had been learnt from the tragedy.
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