Cyclist police said was ‘breaching human rights act’ by riding no-handed reveals new twist in case

A cyclist who was fined for riding his motorcycle “no-handed” has had his lawsuit dropped by nan Crown Prosecution Service (CPS).

Barrister Paul Powlesland said that City of London Police had ticketed him nether nan Human Rights Act past July. He contested nan fine, which he described arsenic “utterly bonkers”, arsenic he felt it was not forbidden to thrust whilst not rubbing nan handlebars.

Footage taken by Powlesland which quickly went viral shows him confronting an serviceman astir his ticket.

Sharing an update to nan lawsuit connected X connected Thursday (12 February), Powlesland, who was owed to look successful London South-Central Magistrates' Court connected Friday, revealed that nan lawsuit had been dropped to owed insufficient evidence.

He said that whilst he was gladsome he did not person to spell to court, he was irritated astatine nan unit for “wasting my clip and taxpayers’ money pursuing thing truthful trivial and which is intelligibly not illegal”.

The Independent has contacted City of London Police for comment.