A Metropolitan Police officer has been charged with misconduct after allegedly stealing money from the corpse of an Italian filmmaker when he had a heart attack and died. PC Craig Carter, 51, allegedly stole about £170 during the six-hour period when Claudio Gaetani’s body remained on the ground while an undertaker was requested. Carter, from […]
Sending “jokey” messages to a closed group of people who will not be offended by them is lawful, lawyers for two former police officers have told the High Court. Former Scotland Yard officers Jonathon Cobban and Joel Borders shared “grossly offensive” messages in a WhatsApp group which included Wayne Couzens, 51, who in 2021 was […]
A police officer faces jail after he waged a terrifying campaign of abuse against three women for more than a decade. Christopher Ferguson has been convicted of assault, stalking, voyeurism, breach of the peace and acting in a controlling, threatening, manipulative and abusive manner, beginning what the prosecutor called a “single course of criminal behaviour” […]
A paedophile police officer who targeted more than 210 underage girls has lost his appeal for a shorter prison sentence. In October 2023 former South Wales Police officer Lewis Edwards was sentenced to 13 life sentences with a minimum term of 12 years for the most serious charges. Edwards incited girls aged between 10 and […]
A Metropolitan Police Officer found guilty of assaulting a woman in front of her young son after wrongly believing she had not paid her bus fare “overreacted,” a judge has said. Pc Perry Lathwood, 50, of Norman’s Bay, East Sussex, grabbed Jocelyn Agyemang by the arm, causing bruises, during the arrest on July 21 last […]
The 75-year-old ringleader of an armed robbery in which a police officer was shot dead almost 20 years ago has been jailed for life for her murder. Piran Ditta Khan spent nearly two decades evading justice for his part in the killing of PC Sharon Beshenivsky in Bradford on 18 November 2005. Khan, who was […]
A police officer has been charged under the Terrorism Act after allegedly publishing two images of a Hamas headband on WhatsApp. Pc Mohammed Adil was charged after an investigation carried out by Counter Terrorism Policing North East into messages shared on the platform The 26-year-old is charged with two counts of publishing an image in support […]
A rapist former Met police officer with a “desire for control” is set for a “harsher experience” in prison, said a judge who gave him a life sentence. Cliff Mitchell, 24, kidnapped and raped one of his victims at knifepoint in September 2023, telling her to put her arms behind her back, before tying her […]
A police officer who assaulted a ‘vulnerable’ boy as he was being detained has been given a suspended prison sentence and ordered to do more than 200 hours of community work. Wiltshire PC Lee Prince, of Hook near Royal Wootton Bassett, remained silent in the dock at London’s Westminster Magistrates’ Court yesterday as he was […]
A lying police officer who claimed she had been repeatedly attacked by her fictitious ex-boyfriend has been spared prison. Nadia Thurley, 29, an officer with Hampshire Police, alleged she had been assaulted 14 times, including being raped, over a seven-month period. She would arrive at work at Southampton central police station with injuries to her […]
The full extent of Wayne Couzens’ offending has been laid bare in a devastating official report that revealed accusations of serial sexual abuse including rapes, before he used his status as a police officer to kidnap and murder Sarah Everard. It is said his offending going back nearly 20 years, includes two rapes, sexually assaulting […]
A West Yorkshire Police officer who shoved a man 11 times and called him a ‘dickhead’ in an animated bust-up after he mounted the kerb while parking his patrol car has been spared jail. Police Constable Simon Hartley, 39, snapped when Rizwan Ali, who was stood on the pavement, complained the officer had manoeuvred his car too close […]