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Police officer attacks woman and keeps job

85 replies

Happinessisawarmcervix · 19/03/2021 16:03

No words.

www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/drunken-duty-police-officer-25-23759044

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MercyBooth · 19/03/2021 22:10

@alwayslucky DH watches that.

AdHominemNonSequitur · 19/03/2021 23:05

Innocent until proven guilty. If he is proven guilty and is still in employment after that that is truly terrible.

Sanchez79 · 19/03/2021 23:19

AdHominemNonSequitur

He pleaded guilty, doesn't get more guilty than that

Backstreetsbackalrightdadada · 19/03/2021 23:20

Horrific. That he hasn’t been jailed AND gets to keep his job... it only got this far because the police were slow to investigate, CPS said not enough evidence to prosecute but the victim appealed... it’s all on cctv... what else do women have to suffer before their aggressors are jailed? And he could still keep his job... how has he not been automatically fired??? Talk about how easy it is to assault women, get off Scott free and have no repercussions

Meanwhile the victim was the one who had to fight to bring this to court, appeal the CPS and now has no justice. Seriously wtf.

Longdistance · 19/03/2021 23:22

You couldn’t make this shit up 😡 honestly, why keep such incompetent recruits?
I’d seen his victim on tv earlier. That is no justice what so ever.

heyjude12 · 19/03/2021 23:26

This is shocking beyond words.
That poor woman. He is a thug and a criminal and should be in prison.
The judge should be accountable for his criminally unfair sentencing.

Usagi12 · 19/03/2021 23:42

@OhHolyJesus

Jesus that's horrific. How can he be allowed to stay in his job?

Justice has always be weighted against women but it feels more now than ever before, maybe that's just me or just the recent news but its never ending.

I don't think it's getting any worse tbh, women have always had to contend with this shit. The saddest thing is it's never really gotten any better and it certainly doesn't look like it's going to anytime in the near future.
AdHominemNonSequitur · 19/03/2021 23:54

@Sanchez79

AdHominemNonSequitur

He pleaded guilty, doesn't get more guilty than that

Shit, missed that.
StrangeLookingParasite · 19/03/2021 23:58

He is exactly who is an inappropriate candidate for working in this kind of role; police, security, armed forces. Full of his own importance, drunk on his own tiny but of power, just dying to abuse it.
If they keep this dreg after this, they will be facing case ofter case of abuse of power.

heyjude12 · 20/03/2021 00:12

^If they keep this dreg after this, they will be facing case ofter case of abuse of power.^
And more and more women will get attacked

Wearywithteens · 20/03/2021 00:15

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NiceGerbil · 20/03/2021 03:57

’These are the people who are going undercover to protect women'

In pubs and clubs.

Erm. Not keen at all.

I think they are interested in drugs and using this as an excuse.

Dillparsleyandmint · 20/03/2021 04:12

I think the most worrying thing about this was by all accounts the police response to the victim's complaint was pretty lacklustre until the video footage came forward. I hope he is sacked.

Jumpingroo · 20/03/2021 04:21

@Dillparsleyandmint

I think the most worrying thing about this was by all accounts the police response to the victim's complaint was pretty lacklustre until the video footage came forward. I hope he is sacked.
Usual story then, there are such serious, ingrained issues within the police. It has been frustrating to see their behaviour on social media accounts banging on about 99.9% being heroes.

I don’t know how this can be changed, their arrogance and contempt for women. Something is going wrong with their recruitment process for a start.

GrammarTeacher · 20/03/2021 04:51

All of this is true about this case but can we also direct anger at the CPS (who refuse to prosecute most of the rape cases the police pass to them - and they only do that when they're convinced) AND the judge in this case. What on earth was he thinking!
I don't know if you remember the story of the policeman who killed his lover and got a low sentence (10 years I think) but that has just been increased yesterday. Why are judges doing this? Any time an officer commits a crime there should be additional charges related to misconduct in a public office as they are meant to uphold the law not break it. Police should get harsher sentences not lighter.

Jobsharenightmare · 20/03/2021 05:04

Just dreadful. I don't understand the lack of consequences from the criminal justice system here; regardless of what happens with his job he should be facing a custodial sentence.

aweegc · 20/03/2021 05:18

So she wasn't taken seriously until CCTV footage came to light? That means they're literally saying that the voice of a woman means nothing. What would have happened without the CCTV? Nothing. And there would have been more incidents too, more women brutally attacked going about their daily life. Likely with increasing brutality.

And then after she/her family pushed her case, he gets a fucking curfew and £500 fine?! I bet she would be happy for the result of her attack to be a 3 month curfew (in covid times) and £500. Job done.

I thought policemen were supposed to be held to higher standards than regular people. Which would suggest if he'd not been an officer, he'd have got an ever lower sentence!!

Women's lives are simply seen as a cheap price to pay for the right of men to live theirs: collateral damage indeed.

DryHeave · 20/03/2021 05:19

Sickening. There is clearly a set of people (power trippers, bullies etc) who are attracted to join the police for the wrong reasons.

You’d think the police service would be on the alert for these people from recruitment onwards, and absolutely leap into action when something happens?!

I knew Cressida Dick’s statement that every police officer would be revolted by the Sarah Everard case stank to high heaven.

Sundances · 20/03/2021 05:21

It's obviously not a few bad apples but a massive cultural problem within the police, and I don't think any awareness course that exists could fix it.
You mention 5 - there are 32,000 police officers in the met. 113,000 in England.
Who needs the Daily Mail - there's better headline fodder on MN

Sundances · 20/03/2021 05:23

Sorry 123,000 in England and Wales

Cwenthryth · 20/03/2021 05:28

Another magistrates case - the system stinks. I am livid.

ExitChasedByAnImposter · 20/03/2021 05:32

@EsmaCannonball

There's also a story in today's papers about three Met officers being given just a written warning after sending each other texts about wanting to gang rape and murder a crime victim and saying they should only allow women to report crimes in exchange for sexual favours. This comes after an officer was removed from frontline duties for sending jokey memes concerning the Sarah Everard case. There was also the case of two Met officers taking inappropriate photographs of the bodies of Bibaa Henry and Nicole Smallman.

It's obviously not a few bad apples but a massive cultural problem within the police, and I don't think any awareness course that exists could fix it. How can women come forward about being a victim when there's evidence that they even find our murders trivial and funny?

@EsmaCannonball I had no clue Sad I just googled what you said and found this article.
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Happinessisawarmcervix · 20/03/2021 07:38

@aweegc

So she wasn't taken seriously until CCTV footage came to light? That means they're literally saying that the voice of a woman means nothing. What would have happened without the CCTV? Nothing. And there would have been more incidents too, more women brutally attacked going about their daily life. Likely with increasing brutality.

And then after she/her family pushed her case, he gets a fucking curfew and £500 fine?! I bet she would be happy for the result of her attack to be a 3 month curfew (in covid times) and £500. Job done.

I thought policemen were supposed to be held to higher standards than regular people. Which would suggest if he'd not been an officer, he'd have got an ever lower sentence!!

Women's lives are simply seen as a cheap price to pay for the right of men to live theirs: collateral damage indeed.

She shouldn’t have needed the CCTV, there’s a witness - the person who runs out shouting “Ollie, Ollie, Ollie.” But I suppose that person wouldn’t have testified.
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ValancyRedfern · 20/03/2021 08:08

@Theunamedcat

These are the people who are going undercover to protect women
This. My immediate thoughts on the whole 'plain clothes officers in bars to protect women' idea was that there was another potential predator to navigate on a night out.
Erkrie · 20/03/2021 08:13

Seems to me that police culture is rotten to the core. How can we ever hope to reduce violence to women and girls when we have incidents of police taking selfies of themselves next to murdered womens bodies, like some kind of fucking trophy, attacking women on their way home, or going the full distance and murdering them. Or the coverups with the grooming gangs whilst girls remained at significant harm. There's too much to list. Nothing changes. I have no faith in the police. Just days after Sarah, an abusive policeman gets a curfew for assaulting a woman, at a time when everyone is under curfew. How is that a punishment? The police just push out platitudes but theyre not going to change a single thing.