Ahmad police faced many complaints

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The Met agreed to pay terror suspect Babar Ahmad the damages after admitting in the High Court that officers subjected him to "gross brutality".

The Met now says the six officers in the Ahmad assault were the subject of at least 77 complaints since 1992.

A spokesman for the force said: "A number of these unsubstantiated complaints would have invariably been referred to the PCA (Police Complaints Authority) or IPCC (Independent Police Complaints Commission) but all except for one were unsubstantiated."

That complaint "led to words of advice in respect of a complaint relating to an unlawful search", he said.

As to the other complaints, they were either not investigated - because the complainant did not assist the investigation or because the complaint was withdrawn; informally resolved without the need for an investigation; or investigated but found to be unsubstantiated.

But the force could not confirm reports that court documents obtained by the Guardian newspaper show that four of the officers who carried out the raid on Ahmad's home had 60 allegations of assault against them - of which at least 37 were made by black or Asian men.

The documents also showed one of the officers had 26 separate allegations of assault against him - 17 against black or Asian men, reports said.

Mr Ahmad, a 34-year-old IT support analyst, was assaulted during a dawn arrest at his home in Tooting, south-west London, in December 2003.

Earlier this week, the court heard Mr Ahmad was never charged with any offences arising out of his arrest and that one of the unnamed officers allegedly involved is to face criminal proceedings.