A police custody detention officer deliberatley threw a cup of scalding water over a prisoner who had been stripped to his boxer shorts, a court was told.

Abdul Alfadley, 30, had been arrested on Wellington Street following a row with a bouncer.

He was handcuffed and taken to Barnsley police station at about 1.30am on a Sunday in May last year.

Jurors at Leeds Crown Court were told he was agitated and obstructive and did not make life easy for officers. He was taken to a cell where a strip search was carried out and Mr Alfadley was left in a loose-fitting pair of boxer shorts.

He was lying on the floor semi-naked when Adrian Law, 45, of Cranwell Court, Goldthorpe, reached through a hatch in the door and poured 'nearly boiling' water over his abdomen and genitals, said prosecuting barrister Jeremy Hill-Baker.

The jury was shown cctv footage of Law, a civilian employee, looking into Mr Alfadley's cell before walking along the corridor towards a kitchen carrying a paper cup. Mr Hill-Baker said he filled it from a hot-water geyser which dispensed water at 94.7C.

Kuwaiti national Mr Alfadley, speaking through an interpreter, said: "I didn't hear anything. I just saw someone looking at me. After two, three, or four minutes he brought a cup of water and he poured it on my body."

Jurors were shown pictures of his injuries including blistering on his genitals.

The trial continues.

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