SIX officers from Devon and Cornwall Police will face misconduct proceedings over the death of a man with a history of mental illness, the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) said today.

Thomas Orchard, 32, died in October 2012 after he had been held down, handcuffed and placed in restraints with an impermeable webbing belt around his face for five minutes.

Mr Orchard, who suffered from schizophrenia and was living independently in supported accommodation at the time of his death, had been arrested in Exeter city centre following reports that he was behaving bizarrely and seemed disorientated.