BREAKING: Two Metropolitan Police officers have been dismissed over discriminatory messages they sent to colleagues in a WhatsApp group.
Yesterday, eight serving and former officers were found guilty of gross misconduct over ‘discriminatory and offensive’ messages they shared, including making fun of 20-year-old Harvey Price.
The hearing concerned former sergeant Luke Thomas, former acting sergeant Luke Allen, former Pc Kelsey Buchan, former Pc Carlo Francisco, former Pc Lee South, former Pc Darren Jenner, Pc Glynn Rees, and Officer B, who has been granted anonymity. The panel found the most senior-ranking officer in the group, Mr Thomas, ‘appears to have been one of the most active participants’ in the WhatsApp group.
Meanwhile, serving Pc Rees described an image of Mr Price riding a child’s train as ‘genius’, which the panel found to be ‘obviously sarcastic’ and ‘making fun of him behaving in a childlike manner because of his disability’. Ms Buchan, who resigned in March last year, called a colleague a ‘f***ing rude little c***’ who she described as ‘mugging me off in front of his mongy fanclub’.
The panel heard that Mr South, who was ‘one of the more active members’ of the chat, said: ‘If any of this group got out my job would be f***ing long ago.’
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