The police officer accused of murdering Dalian Atkinson swore and urged his partner to hit the stricken former footballer with her baton as he lay injured, a jury has heard. The two officers were called to a disturbance in Meadow Close, Telford, after Atkinson shouted outside his father’s house on 15 August 2016. They found him behaving erratically. PC Benjamin Monk denies murder and manslaughter. He is accused of discharging a stun gun for 33 seconds and kicking Atkinson at least twice in the head. The jury at Birmingham crown court heard on Friday that after the stun gun felled Atkinson, he was struck with a baton by PC Mary Ellen Bettley-Smith, who attended the emergency call with Monk. The two officers were in a relationship at the time. Bettley-Smith denies assault. Lisa Howard, who witnessed the incident, told the jury that after Atkinson fell to the floor her view was partially obscured by a parked car, but she could see his legs. She said both officers knelt around Atkinson, who other witnesses have said was apparently motionless. Howard said she heard the male officer say to the female officer, “fucking hit him, fucking hit him”. Howard said the female officer raised her baton, which was in her right hand, and brought it down more than once. Other witnesses told the jury Atkinson was shouting and appeared unsteady on his feet. Victor Swinbourne told how after one of two earlier attempts to subdue Atkinson with a stun gun failed, he is alleged to have said: “Ten-thousand volts is nothing to me,” and brushed his chest. He also said the former footballer shouted when facing the officers: “I am the messiah. You will remember this day.” The two officers say they were acting in self-defence and were terrified. The prosecution claims they attacked Atkinson while he was on the ground because they were angry. On Friday, one witness said Monk repeatedly kicked Atkinson while he was motionless on the ground, with enough force to cause his body to move. Julia Shilton said she saw Atkinson go down, falling “like a ton of bricks” after the officer fired his stun gun. Shilton said: “The male officer approached Mr Atkinson and just looked at him, then he just started kicking him.” She said it was “quite hard”, with five or six kicks. Shilton said: “Each time the kicks hit Mr Atkinson the body moved with each kick, they were shaking his legs.” She said she could only see the body from the waist down, suggesting the kicks were around the upper body area. A car obscured her view from the window of her home. “When he went down, he did not move from there,” she told the jury. Shilton said the level of violence shocked her, and added: “I could not believe what I was seeing.” The two officers were called to the incident just after 1.30am. Within 80 minutes Atkinson, 48, was pronounced dead. The trial continues.