These are the lies police officers told in statements to cover up their colleague's attack.
PC Darren McIntyre lashed out at Mark Bamber after a "red mist descended" and he began punching him repeatedly.
He was with Merseyside Police colleagues attending a welfare check on Mr Bamber's partner in Ainsdale on June 19, 2019, when PC McIntyre told him "you better wind your f****** neck in" and threatened to put him in a cell.
When he flew into the rage and "became angrier and angrier" PCs Laura Grant and Lauren Buchanan-Lloyd turned off their body-worn cameras before lying in their statements, along with PC Garrie Burke, to protect their colleague.
Mr Bamber was left with blood pouring from a cut to his cheek before being arrested and spending nine hours in a cell and eight days under police investigation.
Judge David Aubrey, QC said: "This was team work and dishonest team work, undermining the system of justice."
Of the deliberately false statements Judge Aubrey said: "They do not live in the same world, breathe the same air as that which in fact occurred."
The judge said: "PC McIntyre stated in his statement Mr Bamber 'Then moved his head in my direction then he raised his left arm and elbowed me in the left side of my nose'."
Burke wrote: "Bamber has then moved his head towards Constable McIntyre in what I believed to be an attempt to headbutt my colleague."
After reading Burke's statement to the court Judge Aubrey added "That was a lie".
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The judge said: "Grant claimed Mr Bamber was drunk and asserted you had not seen what happened, namely any strikes by your colleague and friend.
"I'm satisfied that was a lie, and I'm satisfied you had."
Buchanan-Lloyd wrote Mr Bamber's "head leaned in" but didn't claim he had tried to headbutt McIntyre or use his elbows to hurt him.
The judge said: "What if he had been charged? What if he had been tried? What if he had been convicted?"
Judge Aubrey said while that was "unlikely" due to the bodycam footage being turned off, it was "possible".
The judge said: "In any event he had been assaulted when there was no justification, arrested without cause, unlawfully in custody for approximately nine hours and under police investigation for eight days."
Judge Aubrey said he was satisfied Mr Bamber wasn't drunk, aggressive and "never displayed any violence or any threat".
The judge said: "PC McIntyre did nothing to diffuse the situation, in fact in my judgement having presided over the trial I am satisfied he created it and he persisted in using inflammatory and confrontational language."
Burke, 44, of Holmefield Grove, Maghull; Grant, 36, of Somerville Grove, Waterloo; and Buchanan-Lloyd, 26, of Kings Close, Higher Bebington; all denied perverting the course of justice but were convicted by a jury.
Sentencing Burke the judge said: "You have been in the police force for 23-and-a-half years and thrown it all away."
He said Burke had "thought little, if any, of Mr Bamber".
The judge said: "Your career is now in shreds in consequence of the fact you decided, with others, to embark upon a dishonest course of conduct in support of your colleague, PC McIntyre, irrespective of the consequences it could cause a member of the public."
Sentencing Grant, Judge Aubrey said: "You were Buchanan-Lloyd's tutor, your responsibility was to teach her best practice in policing. What did you teach her?
"When on the way to the hospital after leaving the house your student asked what had happened.
"I am satisfied she told you she had turned her camera off, in effect at the time McIntyre was unlawfully assaulting Mr Bamber."
The judge said Grant replied: "I know, because I turned mine off".
When her student asked "how do you explain that" Grant said "oh the battery died".
Judge Aubrey said: "Those few words spoke volumes as to what you were about and what was already in place, or about to be."
The judge said Grant had "impressive character references" and is the primary carer for her two children.
To Grant and Burke the judge said: "Each of you has crossed the line and did so by some margin.
"The public is entitled to expect complete trust in their police officers. You breached it and in doing so betrayed all your honest colleagues."
They were each sentenced to 15 months in prison.
After they left the dock Judge Aubrey told Buchanan-Lloyd it was a "a tragedy for you you were allocated PC Grant as a tutor" and to "find yourself attached to three officers who had no moral compass or integrity".
The judge said her view of the attack was blocked but said "as soon as [Grant] made reference to the battery on the camera dying you became aware of were becoming aware something was amiss."
Ailsa Williamson, defending Buchanan-Lloyd, explained she had been with the police for only five weeks.
Buchanan-Lloyd was handed a nine month sentence suspended for 18 months.
McIntyre, 47, of Derwent Avenue, Southport, who denied assault causing actual bodily harm and perverting the course of justice, will be sentenced on July 16 after the court heard he had been hospitalised.
Merseyside Police say all three officers are suspended and will face fast-track gross misconduct proceedings for breaches of the standards of professional behaviour.
