‘We caved her’: Cop’s vile line after bashing naked, mentally ill woman in Sydney street
Bodycam footage showing two former police officers stomping on a naked, mentally ill woman before pepper spraying her genitals has been played in court.
Two police officers repeatedly stomped on the head of a mentally ill woman before pulling her along the ground by her hair and pepper-spraying her genitals, a court has heard.
Former senior constables Timothy Trautsch and Nathan Black faced Penrith District Court on Thursday after pleading guilty to a series of assault charges over the “welfare check” involving a 49-year-old woman in January 2023.
The court heard the woman was in a “state of psychosis” and ran away from the officers naked through the streets of Emu Plains in Sydney’s west.
At one stage, the woman grabbed at Black’s handcuffs with the pair deploying pepper spray as she lay on the ground unarmed.
Court documents reveal Black confirmed to hospital staff he had sprayed pepper spray directly onto the victim’s vagina, stating: “Yes, you have to do what you have to do.”
The documents also reveal the pair continued kicking the woman as she lay on the ground, before Trautsch told Black: “That’s enough, there could be cameras.”
“Both offenders direct multiple kicks towards [the victim’s] body and head,” the court documents state.
Bodyworn footage and CCTV was played to the court on Thursday after news.com.au fought a suppression order on the vision along with other media outlets.
The bodyworn footage begins with the woman telling officers: “I’m terrified of you people, go away.”
She also told the pair that “aliens” were watching her.
At one point, the woman defecates on the street with Black telling her to wash her “dirty, stinky a**” while giving her baby wipes.
“Go on, wash your c**t, wash your a**, go on wash it out,” Black says to the woman in the footage.
“What the f**k is going on here hey.”
Despite the woman being unarmed, Black asks Trautsch if they have a “Taser” or a “long bat” in their car.
“Yeah, that will settle her down,” one of the constables jokes.
The woman was eventually transported to Nepean Hospital.
Court documents state that during the incident, Black “at times turned off the audio recording function of his body worn video” and at points “turned off the video completely”.
Both men were suspended after the incident and have since resigned from their jobs.
The woman in the video has since died due to an unrelated illness.
After the incident
Court documents revealed that later that day, Black sent a 17-second video via Facebook Messenger that he recorded on his mobile phone to a different colleague who also worked at Nepean Police Area Command.
“Both OC cans emptied on her. Was f**ked,” he wrote.
The next day he wrote another message.
“She was f**ked the whole body worn is so good shows her being f**ked,” he wrote.
“Nurses are lodging a complaint [senior officer] is investigating because we caved her, but she had a hold of the cuffs and we had no other options.”
Trautsch seeks workers comp over assault
The court previously heard that Trautsch lodged a claim for compensation from the NSW Police Force after resigning from his job.
Barrister David Baran, who represented the NSW Police in the matter, said the compensation claim was “resisted” by the Force, arguing that any psychological injury during the January 2023 attack was the result of Trautsch’s own actions.
“We say this injury is suffered from this horrific assault, which was captured on CCTV and in part on body worn camera,” he told the court.
“Psychological trauma is all based on this assault. He did what no police officer should do.”
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