Not read everyones comments as I dont care tbh, I think well done for the copper battering him.
What will happen to him once it gets to court? a few months to a year ban, points and a fine or possibly prisonment?
Eitherway none of the above will stop him from actually nicking a car again, yet the thought of being battered by some one once caught might actually do some thing.
Now ok, I might be old fashioned but the day and age of when parents used to be legally allowed to smack their children or police officers was also allowed to properly tell some one off never did me any harm and all the thousands of others too.
This place we call England has become soft, soft to the point where law breakers have more rights than some one who is a saint.