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English Police jailed for - murder - rape of children - drug charges - theft - robbery - child porn - brutality - assault

Over 155 English policemen/policewomen jailed

Percentage wise the 'English Police' employ more thugs and criminals than any other group of people....  this is why innocent people are killed in police custody and innocent people are convicted by police lies and withholding evidence

8 Police officers 'Guilty of 12 murders' 
5 Officers jailed for serious assault with a knife, saw and attempted murder

Murder of defenseless wife and children - 29 August 2001

PC Karl Bluestone - Sadistic and brutal murder of wife Jill and two of his children with a claw hammer on Tuesday

PC Karl Bluestone, 36yo  battered his wife Jill, 31, and two of his four children to death with a claw hammer at their home, before 'Hanging himself.'


He had been arrested twice before for violent rows at his home in Gravesend, Kent, but never charged or officially disciplined.
PC Bluestone was reportedly never prosecuted due to a lack of evidence (and the police say) his wife's reluctance to press charges.

  • Neighbours have talked of hearing other rows over the years.
    June 1999 Mrs Bluestone fled the house with baby Henry. 
  • The CPS Crown Prosecution Service ruled there was not enough evidence for a prosecution.  
  • The CPS always say the same when police kill innocent people like Christopher Alder -- Jean Charles De Menezes -- Alton Manning -- Shiji Lapite -- Richard O'Brien -- Leon Patterson  -- Oliver Pryce -- Ibrahima Sey -- Harry Stanley  -- Roger Sylvester

Again, (the police say) his wife did not press charges.

The Campaign Against Domestic Violence pressure group has claimed Kent Police had "brushed under the carpet" the earlier incidents.

  • 6 November, 2001Inquest in Gravesend the court heard Mr and Mrs Bluestone had several violent fights in the past
  • In June this year he  throttled his wife until she became unconscious.
  • In earlier incidents, he  punched Jill in the stomach while she was pregnant 
  • In another threatened her with a meat cleaver.
Ex PC jailed for 'savage' killing 19 November 2004

William Ernest Coulter 52yo of Mill Road, Portstewart An ex-police officer stabbed mother-of-two Jillian Doherty, 43, in a drunken rage in January 2003. has been jailed for 18 years for murdering his partner at their County Londonderry home. 

Ms Doherty had 21 injuries, nine of them significant blows to her chest and arms.

Lord Justice Nicholson said the victim was a "defenceless woman, unable to protect herself against his savage attack".

The trial heard that Coulter, who had served as a full-time reservist in the Royal Ulster Constabulary, had been treated for alcohol problems.

He had been drinking with Ms Doherty when a quarrel broke out, and he stabbed her nine times with a kitchen knife.

Coulter said he had been drunk at the time and could not remember much about the killing.

Policeman jailed for brutal murder of wife - November 6 199

PC Michael Coulton a Royal Protection Squad policeman found guilty of murdering his wife mother-of-two Patricia Coulton.  She had been stabbed 15 times and bludgeoned to death.

PC Coulton, 53, shook his head as the jury returned its unanimous verdict. He was  sentenced to life imprisonment.

The judge, Mr Justice Wright, told him: "The jury have found you guilty of what on the evidence the court has heard was quite plainly a long planned, callous and ultimately cold-hearted killing of your wife. The court learned he stood to gain more than £100,000 from his wife's death in pension and insurance money.

The court was told he had also become obsessed with neighbour Diana Bridges for whom he did odd jobs and had told her: "I would marry you tomorrow". She described how PC Coulton gave her and her daughter Claire expensive gifts and started to stalk her when she ended the friendship and had followed her in his car.

Policeman jailed for relentlessly stabbing his wife to death - 3 June 2005  (Only 8 years for savagely killing his wife)

PC Graham Jones, better known as Ivor, admitted killing his 36-year-old wife Maria in the bedroom of their family home at Teesside in December 2004.
He pleaded guilty to manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility. Sentenced to eight years in prison.

PC Graham Jones 40yo was charged with murdering his wife after she was found dead with    95 multiple stab wounds - to the head, chest and torso, on 2nd Dec 2004 at their home at Ingleby Barwick, near Stockton, Teesside.

Ex- WPC officer jailed for killing city pastor - 20 Sept 2005 - 

Sandra Fraser a former Jamaican  police officer stabbed Birmingham pastor Edson Ennis and then burnt his body, dumping it in a car park has been  jailed for life at the city's Crown Court.

The body, which had been wrapped in a tablecloth and bound up with parcel tape, was found burning in the car park of the Black Patch Community Lane in Foundry Lane, Smethwick

In passing sentence on ex officer Sandra Fraser, Judge John Saunders QC said what she did to pastor Edson Ennis, and the way she had treated him, was "evil".

Judge Saunders said the pastor was shouting for help and when he tried to get away Fraser had pinned him down. 

She persuaded her 16-year-old daughter to pass her a knife and stabbed the victim 13 times.
The judge said that Fraser, who had served four years as an officer in the Jamaican police force and had "cultivated " a friendship with 78-year-old Mr Ennis, a pastor at a Pentecostal church, with the sole purpose of stealing both property and money from him.

PC murdered pregnant girlfriend - 22 October, 2004

A policeman who killed his partner Audra Bancroft in a "savage" attack on the day she was due to have an abortion. 
Sentenced to life in prison.

PC Gary Walker 40yo was found guilty of murdering 36-year-old Audra Bancroft in Burton-on-Trent, Staffordshire, while he was a serving officer in Bristol.

Stafford Crown Court heard how PC Walker beat and throttled the mother-of-three at their home on 8 December. Miss Rachel Brand QC, prosecuting, said that  a pathologist found that Mrs Bancroft had a fractured nose and 26 areas of bruising and grazes on her body.

The judge said the former constable should spend at least 13 years in jail. Walker, who used to work for Staffordshire Police, resigned from Avon and Somerset Police when the case first came to court.

Ex Police Insp jailed for murder of 2 police officer released - October, 2002

Howard Wilson A former police inspector jailed for life in 1970 for the murder of two police constables has now been released from prison after serving over 25 years for murder

 

Howard Wilson now 64yo shot the two officers while trying to resist arrest after a series of bank robberies.

The Scottish Executive said the decision to release H Wilson was taken by the Parole Board after deciding if he was a risk to public safety.

The Scottish Police Federation (SPF) said it was concerned by the decision and believed that with such a heinous crime, life should mean life.

H Wilson was released from Castle Huntly prison in Perthshire on Monday. He was sentenced in 1970 with the recommendation he serve 25 years in jail.

H Wilson was found guilty of shooting and killing Constable Edward Barnet and Detective Constable Angus McKenzie in a Glasgow flat while trying to resist arrest in 1969.

Inspector Andrew Hyslop was shot in the face but survived, was one of four officers who arrested Ex Insp H Wilson.

Double murder

Met police inspector killed his wife, also his mother in law and then Killed himself - 31 Jan 2007 - 12 Jan 2008

Metropolitan Ch Insp Weddell is charged with murdering his wife Sandra who was found strangled in the garage of the family home on 31 January 2007

Mr Weddell was later granted bail with a surety of £200,000 on condition that he hand in his gun licence and stay away from his mother-in-law.

Mike Penning, Conservative MP for Hemel Hempstead wants an inquiry into why a Met police inspector charged with murdering his wife apparently killed himself and his mother-in-law while on bail and was not in custody awaiting trial. 

The judge says he cannot remember why he gave Ch Insp Weddell bail. The CPS had opposed bail

The body of Mrs Traute Maxfield, 70yo his mother-in-law was found at a house in Gustard Wood on Saturday afternoon 12 Jan 2008 after police discovered Ch Insp Weddell's body.

Post-mortem examinations of both bodies are due to take place later.

Metropolitan Ch Insp Weddell had been due to go on trial in May charged with the murder of his wife, Sandra, whose body was found in the garage of the family home in Dunstable on 31 January last year.

Post-mortem tests revealed his wife Sandra 44yo nurse had been strangled with a cable tie.

Plotting to kill - Stabbing wives - Attempted murders

Policeman jailed for plotting murder - 19 April, 2002  

PC Brian Darby 55yo - plotted to kill a woman and her children was a potential serial killer has been sentenced to two life terms in prison after plotting sex killings with his ex-lover.

Brian Darby from Enfield, north London, was convicted in December 2001 of conspiring with his former partner to murder women and children.  Jeannette White 43, from Bristol, was  jailed for seven years for conspiracy to murder.

A 45-year-old mother narrowly escaped death when he called at her home in Ealing, west London. Darby was arrested after he placed a wire noose around her neck intending to rape and kill her, but she managed to escape into the street.

Police sergeant jailed for ex-wife attack - 5 July 2006

Sergeant John Kelly tried to kill his ex-wife by sawing through her neck has been  jailed for 12 years.

Sgt John Kelly 45yo admitted attempting to murder Audrey McDowall with a 12-inch saw in a jealous rage after she had left him for another man. 

Ms McDowall had a 6in deep neck wound that had missed her carotid artery and internal jugular vein by a fraction of an inch.
Doctors said she would have bled to death if either of these had been severed.

She was saved by the actions of another police officer who witnessed the attack in a car in Dumfries last September.

Sentencing Kelly, the judge, Lord Carloway, said he remained a danger to Ms McDowall.

Ms McDowall, 43yo a primary school teacher, had been driving home from work, on the A701 Edinburgh Road in Dumfries, when Kelly rammed her car in a head-on collision.

Advocate depute Graeme Jessop said  PC John Kelly then jumped over the bonnets of the cars, opened the door of Ms McDowall's Mini and attacked her with a 12-inch saw blade.  

  • He said: "She knew she was fighting for her life and had time to think she was going to die. Her arms and legs were flailing about, trying to fight off Kelly."

  • The court was told that PC Kelly had throttled her and began  sawing at her neck, leaving a gaping wound, before a police colleague arrived and he fled. sawing at her neck, leaving a gaping wound, before a police colleague arrived and he fled.

  • Ms McDowall suffered massive blood loss during the attack and the court was told she had been left permanently scarred and disfigured. 

Sergeant Bruce Robison radioed for help and chased Kelly before wrestling him to the ground.

 

PC broke fellow officer WPC's arm in stabbing

PC Peter Marley 34yo broke his WPC's girlfriend's arm when he stabbed her with a kitchen knife has been jailed for 5 years

PC Peter Marley attacked fellow officer WPC Diane Frew 28yo after she told him their relationship was over, Chelmsford Crown Court was told.

WPC Frew dialled 999 and a recording of her screams was played to the court.

The two Essex officers shared a home in Colchester at the time of the May attack. PC P Marley admitted wounding with intent and was jailed for five years.

He also admitted causing more than £600 worth of damage to WPC Frew's car.

The judge was also told that PC Marley had attacked WPC Frew on a number of previous occasions.

The court heard PC Marley, who was suspended after the attack, has resigned...........WPC Frew is not yet fit to resume work.

The court heard PC Marley had been convicted of affray at Sheffield Crown Court when he was 14yo  but had been allowed to join the police.

Policeman jailed for stabbing wife - 19 May 2003

Detective Constable Hugh Needham 42yo stabbed and nearly killed his wife on the 26 May 2002 has been  jailed for four years.

The father-of-four had repeatedly begged her to give their marriage another chance, and even suggested a suicide pact rather than split up. But when she insisted it was over Det Con. Hugh Needham, of Bridge Down, Bridge, near Canterbury, Kent, lost his temper and snatched up a razor-sharp boning knife. 

As their young children played upstairs, the 42-year-old detective plunged the knife into her stomach, Inner London Crown Court heard.
After pulling it out, he waved the blade in front of her face and motioned as if to cut her throat.

Guilty of intimidation
Laura Needham 37, spent almost a month in hospital recovering from her injuries.
The jury rejected Needham's claims he had slipped and convicted him of one count of wounding with intent on 26 May last year. He was also found guilty of intimidating his wife to try to make her drop the case.

Officer 'tried to strangle' wife - 28 December 2006

The wife of a police officer told her parents that "he tried to strangle me", a trial has heard.

Grampian Police Det Con Warren Wattie, 36yo denies assaulting his wife Jacqueline on two occasions at their home in Dyce, Aberdeen.

24 January 2007 convicted of assaulting his wife has been jailed for six months.

Her mother Maureen Buchan told the second day of the trial that Mrs Wattie and her children had arrived at her house "screaming and distressed".

Mrs Buchan said that after an alleged incident in April last year, Det Con Wattie had "apologized profusely" and promised he would never lay a finger on her daughter again.

 

'Almost hysterical'

 

However, she said that in March this year her daughter and two grandchildren arrived at her home one night extremely upset.

Mrs Buchan said "I heard them screaming and distressed outside. I opened the door and the three of them were almost hysterical.

"Jacqueline was really upset and said 'he tried to strangle me'," said Mrs Buchan.

Mrs Wattie's father Ian Buchan added that his daughter had been crying, coughing and choking because her throat was sore.

  1. One of the Wattie's' daughters said she had told her father to "stop it" during an alleged attack on her mother.

  2. Mrs Wattie was assaulted by her police officer husband because there was nothing to eat, the first day of the trial had heard earlier this month

  3. Mrs Wattie also alleged that on an earlier occasion Det Con Wattie jabbed at chair at her "like he was a lion tamer".

  4. Physiotherapist Mrs Wattie, 35, said she feared she was going to end up in intensive care as her husband put his hands around her throat.

28 May, 2001  Death sentence for police rapists

The High Court in Bangladesh has upheld death sentences against three former policemen who were found guilty of the rape and murder of a 17-year-old girl.

The men were convicted in 1997 of the murder of the girl, Yasmeen, and their appeal against the convictions resulted in Monday's verdict.


38 Police officers jailed - Rape of teenage girls - sexually and indecent assaults on teenage girls and boys

PC Jailed for indecently assaulting two teenage scouts - 3 December, 2004 -

PC Peter Alderson 19 years as a police officer from Woodford Green, Essex a Met police officer who indecently assaulted two teenage scouts during a camping trip has been  jailed for three-and-a-half years.

The 38-year-old married father-of-three admitted five sex attacks between 1992 and 1998 at an earlier hearing. He was also put on the sex offenders register and banned from working with children for 15 years.

Detective who groomed 'girl' on police phone jailed 

Detective Constable Glenn Algar a Finchley Flying Squad detective has been  jailed for 18 months for attempting to groom a 12-year-old girl for sex.

Detective Constable Glenn Algar 45yo of Highview Gardens, Potters Bar, used his police mobile phone to send obsessive and lurid text messages to the youngster.  

But the victim was in fact one of his colleagues, working undercover from Scotland Yard He sent her text messages in the morning to wish her a good day at school'.

The married father-of-two, who served with the police for 25 years admitted attempting to incite a child to engage in sexual activity, ten counts of attempting to incite a child to view indecent material and six counts of making and possessing indecent pictures of children. The charges related to the period between June 15 and November 14 last year.

PC jailed for abusing Scouts - 14 February 2003 

PC Mark Bailey 41yo of of Watford, Hertfordshire who sexually abused boys in his Scout troop has been  jailed for 10 years. Bailey was sentenced to eight years for each of the offences of the serious sexual offences and two years to run consecutively for indecent assault.
PC Mark Bailey would ply youngsters with alcohol, show them pornographic magazines and videos and encourage them to play sex games.

PC Mark Bailey a community officer in Mill Hill for 23 years was sentenced at St Albans Crown Court after being found guilty of three counts of indecent assault and two offences of buggery on scouts from the group in Holders Hill Road, Mill Hill.

Judge Colin Colston told him "You have not shown a shred of contrition not a shred of remorse for what you have done," he told Bailey.

"The breach of trust was of the gravest kind. You were both a scout leader and a police officer and you were trusted by the boy and his parents.

"You have brought real shame on the scouting movement. Similarly you bring shame on the uniform you wear as a police officer."

The adolescent boys were too frightened to tell their families what was going on, fearing no-one would believe them.

 

One former scout, now aged 23, told the court how he would wake up after having passed out drunk to find Bailey indecently assaulting him using bottles and even his truncheon for use as a sex aid. 

Policeman jailed for rape - 21 June 2000


PC Paul Banfield 33yo was the subject of a investigation by the Police Complaints Authority (PCA) about five years ago.

  • The PCA recommended that no action be taken against the officer and Banfield was not disciplined.

  • Banfield's 'Police' colleagues told PCA detectives investigating the rapes 

  • They were unhappy with some of the things he had said to women colleagues and prisoners. 

  • (This shows the PCA turn a blind eye to  police corrupt thugs)

  • If the PCA had recommended Banfield was sacked because of what other police officers were saying. More women wouldn't have been attacked in police cells.

Paul Banfield custody sergeant at Parkside Police Station in Cambridge, was convicted of:

  1. Two rapes, 

  2. An indecent assault and burglary with intent to rape, 

  3. Some which took place in the cells of a police station.

  4. Has been  jailed for 18 years for a series of sex attacks on women, 
    He had also fondled two women in their 20s while they were in police cells.

He had broken into the home of a 45-year-old woman and raped her.
Banfield, was a police officer for 15 years. 

3 more victims - Following Banfield's conviction in June 2000, three more women came forward alleging they were victims. A police source said it was felt any further convictions would not add significantly to the sentence Banfield was already serving. (Why not) 

4 June, 2003 Paul Banfield jailed for sexual offences lost his bid to keep the publicly-funded element of his pension. But he will have his pension reduced by 65% rather than 75%, following a ruling at Leeds Crown Court on Wednesday.

PC jailed for child abduction - 15 February, 2005

PC James Beeton, 36, of Peterborough, was serving with Cambs police when he met the girl, was convicted of abduction and indecent assault in 2004. He pretended to be a teenager to seduce the 15-year-old girl he met online has been jailed. 

  Luton Crown Court heard how Beeton sexually assaulted the girl and took her shopping for clothes. Sentencing Beeton to 18-months in jail  Judge Ronald Moss said he was a "risk to young girls". 

The court heard Beeton, who was dismissed from Cambs Police after a disciplinary hearing, took the girl shopping in Nottingham when she was meant to be at school.

During the trip, which took place two weeks before his wedding, he bought her a lacy thong, a bra and a mini-skirt.

PC admits teen sex charges - 14 November 2006

A police officer is facing a prison sentence after admitting having sex with a 14-year-old girl.   

PC Christopher Billinge 25yo from Chorley in Lancashire, pleaded guilty to one count of sexual activity with a girl he knew to be under 16.

PC Christopher Billinge has been sentenced to 12 months imprisonment today after pleading guilty to sexual activity with a girl under 16 at the start of his trial at Newcastle Crown Court.

PC Billinge who had been an officer for two years, changed his plea to guilty on the eve of Monday's trial. Judge Esmond Faulks said he accepted that Billinge was of good character but warned him he faced jail. He added: "I am going to adjourn sentence until tomorrow to give you time to sort out your affairs. "I have already given an indication of what the sentence will be, one of custody and you will have to bear that in mind and prepare yourself." No more information is known


PC John Blott 10 years as a policeman has been jailed for 10 years for raping two teenagers he chatted up on his beat.
PC Blott was also convicted of indecently assaulting a woman as he drove her to his home. 

Blott was cleared on a further three charges of indecent assault that were brought against him. 

But Mr Justice Hooper ordered that one indictment of rape and three indecent assaults be laid on file.

A former detective who knew Blott claimed that he did not know anyone in the force who liked him and colleagues dreaded being put on a shift with him. He said: "They considered him to be dangerous and too handy with his fists."

It was common knowledge that he would attend a crime and, if he liked the look of the female victim when he visited their home, he would leave his notebook behind or make another excuse just so he could go back by himself.

Pc guilty of squad car indecency - 24 May 2007  

Pc Richard James Bowen has been found guilty of performing sex acts in front of a female prisoner as she was being transferred from London to Wales. 

Pc Richard James Bowen 31yo from Dyfed Powys Police broke down in tears as a jury at Swansea Crown Court returned a unanimous verdict. He will be sentenced in June

The court heard how PC R J Bowen from Cardigan in Ceredigion had also tried to force his hand down the woman's knickers during the journey in a squad car.  The court heard how last April, Bowen was sitting in the back of the unmarked police car with the 25yo woman who was accused of stealing a car, as his female colleague drove.

Forensic scientists found evidence on a handkerchief and on the back seat of the squad car.

He was found guilty of two counts of indecent exposure and one of abusing a position of public trust after a 10-day trial.

Sex attack constable keeps pension 15 April 2008 

Pc Andrew Burt was allowed to retire on a full pension after being convicted of indecently assaulting three women.

One of his victims grandmother Alison McFarlane 60yo said Burt had been rewarded for his crimes. 

She was sexually assaulted by the off-duty police officer and told the BBC she is "disgusted" that he has been allowed to keep his full pension.

 

Burt 50yo married would have lost his entire pension if he had been sacked by Lothian and Borders Police after being found guilty last October of assaulting the women at Cockenzie and Port Seton bowling club in East Lothian. But was allowed to retire. Which is against the new rules and regulations that allow prison officers to retire on a full pension when convicted of a criminal offence

 

The constable was suspended from his duties after being sentenced to 150 hours community service and three' years probation. He was also placed on the Sex Offenders' Register.

But he retired last month while an internal police investigation into his conduct was still ongoing.

He has claimed his full pension for 30-years service with the police, which is understood to amount to about £16,000 every year.

The Scottish Police Federation said no-one could defend what Burt had done but added that any officer who had completed 30-years of service was entitled to their police pension.

Pc jailed over two sex assaults - 23 December 2005

PC Amir Butt of Vicarage Road, Watford, used his identification card to lure women into his car has been jailed for three years and nine months  for sexual assault at St Albans Crown Court.

The assaults involved a woman, 21yo from Rickmansworth, Herts, and a 27yo woman from Northolt, north-west London. She said moments after they set off he exposed himself and then assaulted her.

PC Amir Butt 24yo was found guilty of abusing his position as a Metropolitan police officer by producing his ID card to persuade victims into his car.

Inspector jailed 12 years for rape - 6 June 2001

Insp. Adam Carruthers 38yo was found guilty of raping two women  after officers from Lothian and Borders carried out an investigation.

The 38-year-old inspector with Dumfries and Galloway Police was convicted of subjecting one of his victims to a prolonged attack and of raping another woman on a number of occasions has been  jailed for 12 years.   Several of the rapes were when he was on police duty.

Inspector Carruthers, 38, of Penpont, near Dumfries, raped one of his victims several times, including once shortly after she attempted to commit suicide because of ongoing abuse from him.

 

The five-day trial also heard how the father-of-two overpowered his second victim in her isolated cottage and raped her on the floor as she cried out in pain.

 

Inspector Carruthers, who was suspended from duty when the allegations first came to light, also used a police baton and a peeled banana during the assaults which took place between 1993 and 1996.

It emerged during the trial of Carruthers that he was only charged after an inquiry by another force after 

  • Carruthers .... own Dumfries and Galloway officers had found insufficient evidence against him 
  • and there were concerns about a cover up by Dumfries and Galloway in the investigation into Carruthers. 
  • But when officers from Lothian and Borders were called in to assess if Carruthers had breached police regulations, new evidence was handed to them.
Raped girl aged seven

Sgt Gary Clark 48yo of Fareham An officer of 17 years' service from Fareham, was jailed at Kingston Crown Court on Tuesday. - 8 May 2007 , 

He was jailed for 12 years for raping a girl and sexually assaulting her over eight years.  

He had been found guilty at an earlier trial of raping the girl, who cannot be named for legal reasons. The abuse started when she was just seven. 
A jury found him guilty on 30 April of one count of rape, 10 indecent assaults and six counts of indecency with a child.
Sgt Gary Clark, had already been suspended from the force after being charged with the offences in August last year.

Ex-policeman 22 years as a policeman jailed for sex assault - 4 October, 2002

Ex PC Malcolm Coles 61yo formerly of New Buckenham in Norfolk, was found guilty last month of indecent assault and indecency with a child when the girl was aged between seven and 15.

Jailed for four years for sex offences against a girl committed over an eight-year period. The former police officer has been found guilty of seven counts of indecent assault and one of indecency with a child.

Coles left Norfolk police force with an exemplary record in 1992 after 22 years as a policeman, including six as a schools liaison officer.

Policeman jailed for indecently assaulting a 15-year-old girl - 8 August, 2003

PC Steven Cottrell, 37, a Hampshire police officer now of Stourbridge, West Midlands has been  jailed for six months for indecently assaulting a 15-year-old girl whom he met when she did work experience at his station.

Jurors heard how Pc Cottrell met the girl when she did a work experience placement at Eastleigh police station in Hampshire. The pair exchanged telephone numbers and he had sex with her on two occasions after the work placement in 1999

Sex offence police officer jailed - 13 September 2007

Detective constable Peter Cooper was at West Midlands Police for 32 years, was sentenced at Stafford Crown Court for attacking an army cadet in the 1980s.

The detective constable who worked for a unit investigating cases of child abuse has been jailed for five years for sexually assaulting a teenager

Police officer jailed over 'sordid calls' - 25 Aug 2000

PC James Cowan 46yo got his kicks by making sordid calls to schoolgirls - including one from his desk at the station.

The former Army regimental sergeant major made 590 calls, most of them to phone boxes outside schools, a court heard.

When he was arrested by colleagues, Cowan asked his son-in-law to claim responsibility, persuading him to make a signed confession.

But the PC's lies caught up with him and Judge Gerard Harkins  jailed him for three months after admitting a charge of perverting the course of justice.

Indecent assault on teenage girl - 22 May 2002

PC Christopher Dawson 48yo from Wards Green, Barnsley  found guilty of four counts of indecent assault on the girl, then aged 14 inside a village police station in South Yorkshire

Peter Johnson, prosecuting, said Dawson assaulted the girl several times between January 1991 and December, 1992. 
No more information is available

Sex act PC jailed for six months - 20 August, 2004

PC Lee Doggett sentenced to six months in prison for committing a sex act in front of young girls.

He had denied five counts of outraging public decency and four of   indecency with a child  during incidents in Cramlington, Northumberland, last July.

Doggett was also placed on the Sex Offenders' Register for seven years.

Sex assault policeman jailed - 5 November 1998

PC David Elliott 31yo of Cheshire Police, was found guilty after a six-day trial by unanimous decision of the jury at Manchester Crown Court on Thursday.
Jailed for two years for sexually assaulting five women, including a fellow WPC officer.
He also  assaulted a female prisoner in cells, two women civilian Cheshire police employees and a petrol station attendant.

Ex PC 86yo jailed for teenager rape - 19 April 2006 

Ex PC Clifford Francombe 86-year-old man has been given an eight-year prison sentence for the rape of a teenager school girl more than 20 years ago. 

The rape happened in 1985 when she was a 15-year-old schoolgirl   Clifford Francombe of Southgate, Gower, raped the 15-year-old girl when he was 65. His victim made a complaint after discussing the 1985 attack years later with a family friend.

PC jailed for six years for sexual acts with children - 25 October 2004

PC Julian Glynn 47yo was found guilty of 10 counts of indecency with a child and two charges of indecent assault. He denied them all.

He was given 12 jail terms totaling six years' detention.

Glynn was accused of indecently assaulting five teenage girls at his village home between 1988 and 1994. The five girls - now in their 20s - said Glynn, 47, would take them inside and ask them to take a blindfolded test before committing an act of indecency on them. The girls allege that the father-of-three would take them upstairs and blindfold them before committing an act of indecency.

Pc Julian Glynn father of three, a serving officer with Leicestershire Police, tricked the five girls, then aged seven to 14, into "forfeit" games while his wife was out at work.

A sixth girl, then aged 15, accused him of an indecent assault while he helped train air cadets.

Ch Supt Paul Gibson, of the force's professional standards department, said Glynn's 20-year pension provision would be passed to Home Secretary David Blunkett, for a final say on withdrawing the allowance. 

Ex Pc is jailed for sex attacks - 23 March 2007

Stephen Glover a former police officer has been  jailed for 15 years after being found guilty of sex attacks on four girls.

Stephen Glover, 51, from Barry, served as a Gwent Police constable in the 1970s after being discharged from the army.

A jury at Cardiff Crown Court found him guilty of 13 sex offences, including attempted rape, indecent assault and indecency with a child.

Judge Philip Richards told Glover: "You substantially damaged each of them and their childhoods were destroyed. "You dominated each of these young girls, forcing them into sexual activity for your sexual gratification against their wishes.

"During your trial you characterized your victims as being liars and fortune seekers."

Life term for rapist prison guard - 19 May 2006 - Judge recommends that he is never released

John David Hall, 35 a  senior prison officer was convicted of five rapes at a trial in March. Hall, worked at Wakefield Prison, committed the offences from 1997-2003. 

Jailed for life  for a series of rapes, kidnaps and indecent assaults against women and young girls in West Yorkshire.

Hall admitted at Leeds Crown Court to:

  • Three kidnappings, 
  • Two attempted kidnappings 
  • Convicted of 5 rapes
  • and two indecent assaults relating to five girls aged 12 to 17.

The judge, Mr Justice Goldring, recommended that the twice-married father-of-one John David Hall should never be released.   He will be considered for parole in twelve and a half years.

Trainee PC jailed for rape - 4 December, 2003

PC Spencer Harley, 30 originally from Llanwrda, Carmarthenshire A Metropolitan Police trainee has been  jailed for six years for raping a colleague

The court had heard how he "callously" attacked the 25-year-old woman in her lodgings after he had drunk six pints and five bottles of beer during a night out in March this year.

In court Harley insisted that the woman had consented to sex after inviting him back to her room. Dressed in a dark suit, he reached for support as the jury's verdict was read out. He then cupped his head with his hands and broke down as he was told how he would remain on the sex offenders' register on his release.

PC took prostitute to police station

PC Gary Hart 34yo picked up Jane Davies in Bolton's red light district and took her to Castle Street police station where she performed a sex act on him at Castle Street police station, which was unmanned overnight.
Oldham magistrates heard the father of two children aged three and 10 months left without paying the woman the £20 they had agreed.

He admitted soliciting a woman from a vehicle for prostitution, and was fined £100, and ordered to pay £2,546 costs. Hart resigned from his post at Greater Manchester Police on Monday.

PC guilty of sex with under age child - 17 September, 2004 - 

(Also enquiries in Dec 2003 that  he stabbed himself)

PC Kevin Hicks, 37 pleaded guilty admitting having sex with a 14-year-old girl was  jailed for four years

The PC admitted the sex offences between 1 April 2002, and 7 February 2004. Hicks, of East Huntspill, near Highbridge in Somerset, was suspended from the police in February.

5 December, 2003  PC Kevin Hicks cautioned for wasting police time following an investigation into claims that he stabbed himself to win compensation. The Crown Prosecution Service later conducted an inquiry after suspicions were raised over the circumstances of the injury. A panel of senior officers  decided in the New Year that he can keep his job.

Which was before he was jailed for sex with the 14yo girl above.

15 July, 2005 ex PC Kevin Hicks who had unlawful sex with a 14-year-old girl has had his four-year prison sentence reduced by 12 months at the Court of Appeal.

Rapist jailed for knife attack - 30 March 2007

Mark Huffadine a  prison officer who raped a woman at knifepoint in her home has been  jailed for six years.

Mark Huffadine 28yo attacked the 20yo women in April 2006 after being invited to the Bedfordshire home of his victim by her father.

At Luton Crown court the father of two, now of High Street, Fleckney, Leicestershire, admitted rape.

Bozzie Sheffi, prosecuting, told how Huffadine grabbed the woman from behind. "He put his hand over her mouth and told her, aggressively, to shut up. He looked angry and evil and she was petrified.

"He had a knife in his hand which he held about four inches from her skin and said he had taken it from the kitchen because he knew she would scream," said Miss Sheffi.

Judge Michael Kay QC told him: "The circumstances are totally appalling.

"She was absolutely petrified. Some madness had got into your head and you could not control yourself."

Child sex attack Pc facing jail - 14 February, 2005 

PC Clifford Lawrence, 43 from Virginia Water, Surrey, admitted four counts of indecent assault on boys under 16 and two charges of indecency with a child. 

He has been told he faces jail after admitting sex attacks on teenage boys in the early 1980s. No more information is available

Judge Michael Hucker at Kingston Crown Court, ordered a further three counts of downloading indecent images of children, three counts of indecent assault and two counts of indecency to lie on file.

Prosecutor James Dawes told the court Lawrence had abused the son of a couple he later had a sexual relationship with. Some of Lawrence's  victims told how they would wake up during the night to find Lawrence, a heavy drinker, performing lewd acts upon them.

PC sexually assaulted student - 16 December 2005

PC James McKenna 29yo of Flackwell Heath, Bucks, who denied the charge, had told Reading Crown Court he was given a date rape drug that blocked his memory.  Has been jailed for sexually assaulting a university undergraduate as they slept in the same bed after a night out.

McKenna a police officer at High Wycombe Police Station, but resigned before the court case began.

On Friday, he was sentenced to 18 months in jail.

The jury heard how on the night of the assault, 28 September, the victim had invited McKenna to stay at his house to save him a taxi ride home.

McKenna said he had no memory of the events up until he arrived at a police station the next morning.

 

Judge Stanley Spence told him: "You visited a deliberate sexual assault on a man who was asleep.

"You said it was the result of a date rape drug being slipped into your drink and you couldn't remember anything, but the jury rejected your account.

"This offence was so serious that only a custodial sentence is justified for it." 

Policeman jailed for sexually assault - 26 July 2002

PC Paul Miller 36yo was cleared of attempting to rape the girl but found him guilty of sexually assaulting her and was  jailed for five years for indecently assaulting the 17-year-old schoolgirl after dragging her off the street into bushes.

The teenager, a Chinese school girl in Britain, was pushed into bushes near Hendon railway station, north London. The girl was saved when neighbours heard her screams and telephoned police, said Timothy Langdale QC, prosecuting.

Officers found Miller trying to leave a muddy area with his trousers undone. 

  1. PC Miller grabbed a terrified 'School girl' from behind and pushed her into bushes to sexually attack her. 
  2. "He tried to cover up her mouth. 
  3. She was punched in the head said Mr Langdale.
  4. "He was telling her 'You be a good girl, you know what I want'.

 He dragged the terrified screaming girl into bushes 

and he is not found guilty of attempted rape.....

WHY NOT?]

Pc checked abuse files for friend

PC David Nutton, 38yo married with four children of Newport, Isle of Wight, was  jailed for 18 months after admitting misconduct in office. 

  • He had also been convicted of a sex assault on a boy between 1988 and 1990. 
  • He committed sex abuse offences against a 12-year-old boy, and was convicted 16 years ago. 
  • (Which shows the type of person that are employed by the police)
  • The court heard he accessed files for Vaughan Evans (the friend ) to confirm that Evans was not being investigated over child sex abuse inquiries.

Evans, of Freshwater, Isle of Wight, was later jailed for five years for sexually abusing a 10-year-old boy and distributing and making indecent images of children.

PC David Nutton, accessed the police data for Evans between 1 January and 25 September 2003, while serving as a police officer with Hampshire Constabulary

Rape allegations PC reinstated in the police force because of a procedural error - 18.10.2004

PC Stephen Overton 32yo who has twice been the subject of rape allegations, was accused of raping a young woman in a police van

  • Challenged his expulsion from the police for misconduct and won because of a procedural error
  • He won hie job back even though he has been branded a potential danger to women
  • He will now be allowed to return to duty with West Yorkshire Police, whose Chief Constable, Colin Cramphorn, has ruled that he must never again be allowed contact with vulnerable women.

  • 16 September 2005 A woman who claimed she was raped by PC Overton has been offered £25,000 by the police"West Yorkshire Police have offered to settle the matter rather than fight the case in court.
    "After a series of negotiations, we have agreed a figure of £25,000 in a settlement of her claim for exemplary damages and physical and mental distress."

  Dismissal recommended - But the Police Federation get PC Overton's dismissal overturned 

THIS CONFIRMS WHAT I HAVE SAID - THE POLICE EMPLOY THUGS - and it is supported by the - POLICE FEDERATION

This confirms what I have said ------ the police employ thugs and it is supported by the 'Police Federation'  

 PC Overton ----- assisted by the Police Federation, ----- appealed against his dismissal and was reinstated in the police after the Chief Constable accepted a procedural error - a delay in disclosing a witness statement - made the panel's findings unsafe.

The officer was immediately reinstated 

    PC Overton's alleged victim said: "This man should be in prison for what he did to me, not back in the police." 

    She gave evidence that she was forced to perform a sex act on the police officer, who then raped her, leaving a DNA sample on a seat of the police van. 

  • PC Overton claimed he had masturbated inside the van. 

  • In May, PC Overton's case was considered by a Police Misconduct Panel, which heard three days of evidence before finding him guilty of two counts of misconduct.  

  • The panel, which ruled that the woman's story was "credible" and dismissed the officer's explanation as "ridiculous", that he had he had masturbated inside the van and recommended his dismissal.

  • This shows that police expect the courts to believe their story just because they are police officers.

  • In 1997, while he was in the Army Air Corps, PC Overton stood trial at Stafford Crown Court accused of raping and indecently assaulting a 21-year-old woman outside a Wolverhampton nightclub. The jury failed to reach a verdict and PC Overton was cleared at a retrial.

PC guilty of lewd conduct suspended over new sex claim - Monday 28 August 2000

PC Andrew Shearer  

  1. was allowed to stay in the police force  by Chief Constable of Cleveland Barry Shaw  

  2. despite finding him guilty at a disciplinary hearing 

  3. of lewd conduct towards shop girls on his beat.

  4. In one store, the management had brought in an instruction that PC Shearer should not be left alone with female staff.

  5. When his advances were rebuffed, he turned to gross sexual innuendo and alleged indecent assault

In June, PC Shearer was found guilty at a disciplinary hearing of 11 counts of discreditable conduct ranging from inappropriate language to indecent assault. Reprimanded at the internal police hearing for a string of disciplinary offences involving women.
At that hearing, before Cleveland Chief Constable Barry Shaw, in May last year, divorced father-of-two Shearer, of Stockton-on-Tees, was found guilty of 11 counts of  discreditable conduct involving women, the force said.
He was fined £600, forced to take a pay cut and reprimanded for disciplinary offences which included indecent assault and using inappropriate language to women working in shops.
Shearer was allowed to remain in the Cleveland force but transferred from Redcar to Middlesbrough.

MORE COMPLAINTS - SUSPENDED AGAIN

Yesterday, it emerged that Shearer has been suspended from duty following a new complaint from a 20-year-old woman.
The woman alleges PC Shearer ordered her into the back of a police van and indecently assaulted her in the early hours of last Wednesday morning.
2 August 2001 PC Shearer was found not guilty of running his hand up the woman thighs and groping her between the legs during a stop-check on a late-night patrol
The jury of seven men and five women at the four-day trial did not know that the officer had previously been fined and reprimanded at an internal police hearing for a string of disciplinary offences involving women.

PC indecently assaulted youth and stealing police property - 31 March, 2004

PC Ian Sherring 33yo  of Charles Avenue, Norwich, a Norfolk policeman has been jailed for one year  He was  convicted of six indecent assaults on a youth in his late teens and theft also admitted three offences of stealing police property.

Police discovered the indecent assault offences while investigating the disappearance of equipment. 

Ex Policeman jailed for rape on teenage girls - 20 March, 2002

Ex PC James Southwell 68 who served as an officer with Greater Manchester Police, raped and sexually assaulted eight children over a 17-year period in the 1970s and 1980s has been  Jailed for 14 years.  He was found guilty of all charges.

One of his victims - now a 35-year-old woman - told the jury the attacks had started when she was just six or seven old. They continued until she was 18.
He was also found guilty of procuring an abortion on a 17-year-old girl. The jury was told he used an instrument to terminate the pregnancy. Southwell had denied the charge.

Prison for policeman sex attacker - 22 December 2005

PC Dean Stewart has been  jailed for five years for sexually assaulting two women and a 15-year-old while in uniform.

Constable Dean Stewart 35yo committed the crimes while stationed in North Ayrshire and was convicted last month after a 10-week trial.

At the start of his trial, Constable Dean Stewart, from Paisley, was accused of a total of 13 sex attacks on nine different victims, three rape charges and 10 alleged indecent assaults.

The charges covered six years between 1998 and 2004 when Stewart was a constable in Strathclyde Police's U Division in Ayrshire.

Prison for policeman sex attacker September 13, 2007 

PC Luke Andrew 24yo convicted for a string of indecent acts involving girls as young as 14yo

Jailed today for two years and four months for assaults and acts of indecency occurred variously late at night, on a dirt track, at a deserted beach car park, on a bush track and in a car at Corlette, Salamander Bay and Nelson Bay, all north of Newcastle.

The judge said "it must have been a frightening experience" for each of the girls with some knowing that he was a police officer. 

Judge Deborah Payne took more than an hour to outline how Tink 24yo had coerced five teenagers aged between 14 and 19 to kiss him while he sometimes exposed himself or while he touched them.

The judge described the seven charges, to which he pleaded guilty earlier this year, as a "course of conduct" between February 2001 and November 2003.

Two of the charges related to incidents in 2003, just seven months after Tink had graduated from the Goulburn police academy and while he was still a probationary constable.

The last offence, involving a 15-year-old girl, was committed within three months of Tink becoming a sworn constable in the NSW Police Force. Four of the complainants were aged under 16 at the time of the offences.

Noting a most "unusual" delay in the progression of the case, Judge Payne said Tink had been dismissed from the police in April 2004.

Jailed for sexual assault - 2 September, 2002

Christopher Todd A former special constable from Norfolk who sexually assaulted two teenage girls has been  jailed for 18 months.

Todd, of Kentside Road, King's Lynn,  abused the girls, aged 13 and 14 , in a flat in a house in Chilwell. In one incident he tried to handcuff one girl to a bed.

Policeman jailed for rape - 3 March, 2004

PC Ian Tolmaer who raped, filmed and photographed a drunken woman has been  jailed for 12 years.
He was also given concurrent sentences of six years for three offences of indecent assault on the same woman.

PC Ian Tolmaer, 36, who in January at Preston Crown Court admitted rape, was sentenced at the Royal Courts of Justice in London on Wednesday.

Indecent assault on teenage girls - 13 December 2001

PC Tony White, 50yo who was awarded the Queen's Gallantry Medal has been  jailed for three years for indecent assault.

  • The indecent assaults involved four teenage girls and took place at a cadet unit White ran in 1996.  

  • White indecently assaulted the girls during camping trips in Nottinghamshire and the Isle of Wight in 1996.

  • The prosecution said one of them was  given cherry brandy and woke up in a wood to find White indecently assaulting her. 

Jail for ex-Pc who raped girl - 10 December, 2004

ex PC Kevin Williams a retired community policeman has been  jailed for 12 years for a string of sex attacks on a schoolgirl.

ex PC Kevin Williams, 50, from Taffs Well, near Cardiff, visited schools as part of his job. After he retired other officers in South Wales Police discovered he had carried out a seven-year reign of abuse.

He raped and forced a 15-year-old girl to dress up for pornographic pictures, warning her not to tell anyone, he told the girl : "Who would believe you? I am the police."

Williams, who retired after 16 years with South Wales Police in 2001, was convicted of indecent assault, rape, a serious sexual assault, and making indecent photos

 

Child pornographry - 20 police officers jailed

13 February, 2001 - Children's charities have united in their condemnation of  "lenient" Wonderland Club jail sentences, saying they send out the wrong message to paedophiles. Many offenders are not even given a jail sentence.
Could probation and  community rehabilitation orders  be because  so many police and also judges are paedophiles. In 2000 legislation introduced  authorized maximum sentences of 10 years
PC jailed for child porn offences - 29 July 2005

PC David Bright had some of the worst examples of child pornography, including children being sexually abused, on computers at home. He downloaded hundreds of images of child porn has been  jailed for eight months.

The 41-year-old married father admitted 17 counts of making indecent images of children and 26 specimen charges of possessing indecent material.

The Northumberland Police officer, who had several commendations, resigned after he was arrested by his own force.

Officers recovered 346 images, including seven photographs graded at the highest level five on a scale of seriousness of pornographic material.

There were 199 at the lowest level and the remaining 140 were graded between levels two and four.

Judge David Bryant said he accepted Bright's early guilty pleas but only a prison sentence would reflect the seriousness of the offences.

Ex-police chief jailed for child porn - 7 December 2004 

David Bruce 44, of Neath Hill, Bucks A former British Transport Police chief superintendent who downloaded hundreds of child pornography pictures has been jailed for four months.

On Tuesday, he appeared before Milton Keynes Magistrates for sentence, having earlier admitted 17 counts of making or possessing indecent images of children.

His computer was seized from his study and an examination carried out which found a total of 657 pornographic images on the computer.

Child porn PC - Fined - 11 June 2003

PC John Derek Clare 38yo found guilty of making child porn has resigned from North Wales Police in the same week he was due to face a disciplinary hearing, was found guilty at Knutsford Crown Court in April of three counts of possessing and making indecent images of girls under 16 on his home computer.

Two months ago PC John Derek Clare from Lixwm near Holywell, was put on the sex offender's register for five years, fined £500 and ordered to pay £1,000 costs for possessing and making child porn in 2001

Former MI6 officer - Child porn community rehabilitation order - 14 September, 2001

Alan Coates former MI6 man - was working for Cleveland Police at the time of the offence In 1988, he began working for Cleveland Police at the equivalent rank of a superintendent

Officers who raided his office and home discovered a stash of nearly 2,000 pornographic images stored on floppy disks and both his computers.

Coates 53, of Forest Lodge, Hamsterley, County Durham, was given a community rehabilitation order for two years and ordered to sign on the Sex Offenders' Register for five years.

A judge at Newcastle Crown Court ruled that he should not go to prison because he had not peddled the pictures to others.

David Selwood a senior Crown Court judge he don't go to prison

(Possession of these pornographic images is unlawful and a jail sentence is given in  99% of cases ... why not everyone, it depends if you are someone like David Selwood a senior Crown Court judge at Portsmouth Crown Court, and now a MI6 officer)

Ex Detective spared jail over child porn - 24 October 2003

Sydney Fillery, 57yo was a detective sergeant at Catford police station until 1989

Ex Detective Sgt. Fillery was sentenced to a three-year community rehabilitation order after pleading guilty to 13 counts of making indecent images of children.

Hugh Davies, prosecuting, said the majority of images were considered level one and two - the least serious in a scale of five - but others were arguably level three and even level four. He said child pornography was found on Fillery's computer at his work premises in Grange Road, Thornton Heath, south east London.

Child porn PC jailed -  28 March 2003

PC Anthony Goodridge 34yo from Ely, Cambridgeshire, was jailed for 6 months at Ipswich crown court, after pleading guilty to the possession of 330 indecent photographs of children.

  He was dismissed by Cambridgeshire police earlier this month, following an eight-year as a police constable.

Child porn PC jailed - 25 March 2003

PC Peter Hibbit 32yo pleaded guilty at Chichester Crown Court to 19 charges of making indecent photographs of children. 
Was jailed for three months and for downloading child porn from an American website. 

He was arrested as part of Operation Ore after his credit card details were passed to Hampshire Police by the FBI, according to police.
Hibbit was sentenced to concurrent three month sentences for each of the charges which date between 1 January 1998 and 7 August 2002.

Child porn PC jailed - 15 November, 2004

PC Paul Hook 32, a police officer with the Kent police pleaded guilty at Maidstone Crown Court to 24 charges of making an indecent photograph of a child between 1994 and June this year he downloaded almost 4,000 indecent images of children was  jailed for a year

Paul Hook, 32, from Snodland in Kent, pleaded guilty last month at Maidstone Crown Court to 24 charges of making an indecent photograph of a child.

Hook, of Alex Hughes Close, was jailed for a year on Monday but was freed as he had served six months on remand. In addition to the jail sentence, he was also given a three-year community rehabilitation order. 

Child porn PC jailed - 12 August, 2003

Anthony King a police sergeant 26-years as a policeman  had one of the largest collections of child pornography in the UK.
  1. Sgt. Anthony King, 49, from Northolt, north west London, was jailed for 15 months after admitting 13 counts of making indecent images of children - 
  2. Some as young as five.
  3. He had spent nearly £5,000 building up a collection of 25,000 pictures of children from all over the world.

Policeman jailed for child porn - 20 March, 2003

PC Christopher Lilley, 33, of Sherwood Rise, Mansfield Woodhouse in Notts had served with Notts Police for 12 years.

He downloaded more than 1,000 pornographic images of children from American websites has been jailed for 12 months.

In some instance he superimposed the heads of children he knew on to the naked images.

Gillian Foxcroft, prosecuting, said that Lilley had admitted eight charges of making indecent photographs of children and six charges of making indecent videos.

The court heard that officers who seized his home computer and a second hard drive found a total of 1,005 pornographic photographs and 26 indecent video clips.

Child porn PC put on probation - 16 October, 2003

PC Alexander McArthur a Grampian Police officer admitted having 5,613 photos and 148 indecent video images, all of children.

The offences were committed when he downloaded the material on to computers at his home in Aberdeen, while he was still a serving police officer.

Sentence had been deferred to allow Sheriff Jessop to view some of the images, which involved children between the ages of five and 15.

Alexander McArthur was put on probation for three years and ordered to attend an 18-month sex offenders treatment course.

Child porn PC jailed - January 2003

PC Robin Mc-Innes who  possessed thousands of child-pornography images has been sentenced to 18 months imprisonment.

  • Officers raided the Chester constable Robin Mc-Innes' home to find images of children "of the vilest possible nature".

  • The 46-year-old, who had been a  police officer for 27 years, quit his job with the Cheshire force after his arrest in September 2002.

  • He was jailed for 18 months at Chester Crown Court after pleading guilty to 14 charges relating to over 15,000 indecent photographs of children.

    Judge Elgan Edwards told him: "These images are of the vilest possible nature and those who look at them and compile them, albeit in the privacy of their own home, commit a serious offence."

Policeman had indecent video clips - 22 July, 2004

PC William Trevor Morgan of Ammanford, had eight video clips of indecent images involving boys on his home computer. Was sentenced to three years' community service for child pornography offences. 

Morgan, from Ammanford, Carmarthenshire admitted eight counts of making indecent images of children he had served 12 years as a police officer,   No more information is available

Former PC jailed for - Child pornography - 14 May 2002

Ex PC Robert Niven, 48yo an Ex policeman downloaded indecent images of children from the internet has been jailed for six months he had more than 100 pornographic images on his home computer.

Niven had earlier pleaded guilty to downloading 113 indecent images at his home in Oak Place, Mayfield, Dalkeith, between March and May last year. Niven was placed on the sex offenders' register and had his computer confiscated.

PC jailed Child pornography - 25 July, 2003

PC Martin Parsons a probationary police officer in Thetford has been jailed for six months for downloading and swapping indecent images of children with a file-sharing program and has been put on the Sex Offenders' Register for seven years, a probationary police officer in Thetford, Norfolk has been jailed for six months for downloading and swapping indecent images of children with a file-sharing program and has been put on the Sex Offenders' Register for seven years,

Martin Parsons, 31, of Knipe Close, Tacolneston, near Long Stratton, appeared for sentence at Norwich Crown Court on Friday. He had admitted 12 offences of making indecent photos of children in October last year, and one offence of possessing indecent photos of children for show or distribution. 

Net porn Pc jailed for sex attack -  9 January 2006

PC Andrew Raw a special constable from Cumbria has been jailed for sexually assaulting a 10-year-old boy and downloading thousands of child porn images.

Andrew Raw, 3yo , admitted indecently assaulting the boy in 1995 and again in 1997, when his victim was 12. He also admitted 15 specimen counts of downloading child pornography and possessing 8,333 child pornography images indecent images of children.

Raw, who is from Penrith, was sentenced to two and a half years in prison when he appeared at Carlisle Crown Court.

Jail for ex-officer who fled country

ex PC William Stephen, who served with Lothian and Borders Police, fled to Bulgaria before he could be sentenced for molesting the two under-age girls, where he changed his appearance and stayed until he was tracked down by detectives.
He was flown back to Scotland in August and was jailed for two-and-a-half years by Sheriff Ian Simpson for molesting the girls.

Stephen was found guilty by a jury in January of last year of using lewd, indecent and libidinous behaviour towards the girls, who were just 14yo at the time.

PC for 24 years admits child porn charges - 12 February, 2003

PC Richard Sweet 49yo a traffic policeman from Sheffield has admitted swapping pictures of children engaged in sexual activity with another man.
PC Sweet pleaded guilty to making eight indecent images of children.
He was given a three year community rehabilitation order, which includes sex counselling.

Sweet's barrister, Richard Barradell, said the former officer was married and was a police officer for 24 years. He was dismissed when the offences came to light. 

Officer fined over internet porn - 1 July, 2004

Sgt. Hamish Tocher a police sergeant has been fined £500 after being found guilty of downloading hundreds of child pornography images.

Sgt. Hamish Tocher, 46, was charged after his wife Lesley complained to the police about his actions.

An extensive search by police forensic experts found 374 sexually explicit images of children had been viewed on Tocher's computer between 16 March and 14 June, 2002

Police inspector jailed - Child pornography - 27 November, 2003

Insp. Christopher Wratten 49yo admitted downloading child pornography has been jailed for six months. 

  • Insp. Christopher Wratten, 49, of Bexhill-on-Sea, was an officer serving in Hastings when he used his credit card to subscribe to websites featuring indecent images of children, Lewes Crown Court was told

  • He was arrested after police officers working on Operation Ore, a crackdown on child porn on the internet, found more than 100 images when they raided his home.
  • He was placed on the sex offenders' register for 10 years.

 Robbery - Theft - Corruption - Fraud - Extortion - 31 Police officers

Sir Paul Condon Metropolitan Police Commander, said there are up to 250 corrupt officers in London - May 9, 1998

Policeman jailed for theft - 24 October, 2003

Police sergeant Martin Binney a police officer for 22 years started taking small amounts of cash from prisoners when he got into financial difficulties, Sheffield magistrates were told.

He admitted three counts of theft and two of falsifying records. He was jailed for two months.

A colleague noticed he had pocketed £5 from a man who was brought in for being drunk and incapable.

Sgt Binney, who worked at the city's Bridge Street charge office, was eventually caught by an undercover officer.

Policeman fined over Harry Potter fraud - 26 November, 2002

Detective Constable Andrew Burt, of Hollands Way, Walsall, was convicted of attempting to pervert the course of justice and dishonestly obtaining a money transfer by deception.

Birmingham Crown Court heard Burt had offered trader Steven Dean a rare first edition Harry Potter book in exchange for £310 but the trader had never received it.

Judge Derek Stanley, also ordered Burt to pay £500 costs, expressed disbelief that the 32-year-old officer had risked his career to gain just £310

Depressed Pc spared prison term - 5 March, 2004

PC Baldeep Cheema 35yo from Derby stole more than £1,000 from prisoners was spared jail after a court heard he was suffering from depression at the time. He was sentenced to 240 hours of community service after admitting two counts of theft.

Pc Baldeep Cheema took £235 from another suspect at the city's divisional police headquarters at St Mary's Wharf in November 2001.

Judge John Burgess told Cheema that he had deserved a custodial sentence but his health problem had diminished his responsibility for the thefts.

(Depression effects a policeman's  intelligence to know that stealing is a crime? - The judge thinks so)

Three policeman who see pensioners as a soft touch to rob them

PC David Clarke 45yo robbed a 89yo pensioner of £1,000  jailed for 12-month

PC Ken Davies robbed a 83yo pensioner of £700  jailed for 9 months 

PC John Morgan robbed a 89yo of £2,800  jailed for 4 years 

PC David Clarke stole £100 from a sick pensioner

PC David Clarke 45yo was  jailed for 12-month for stealing money from a sick pensioner

PC David Clarke's 23 years as a police officer  with the Suffolk Constabulary was in tatters last night after a jury at Norwich Crown Court found him  guilty of theft of an 89-year-old man's money in Stowmarket last November. 

Jurors heard Clarke was called to Mr Last's home in Stowmarket following a suspected heart attack. After Clarke's visit, £100 of the man's savings was found to be missing. Mr Last recovered and reported the theft.

Jurors also convicted Clarke, 45, who had run up debts of £18,000, of theft from a car during a covert operation by a Metropolitan Police anti-corruption team.

Accused of theft before in 1991

After the trial, it emerged PC Clarke was charged with theft as far back as 1991 

  • when serving as a police officer with the Suffolk force. 

  • He was acquitted of the offence at the direction of a judge  

  • after that trial at Bury St Edmunds. 

  • (That is a very familiar ... A JUDGE TELLING THE JURY WHAT VERDICT TO GIVE)

PC jailed in £4m vehicle fraud - Jun 5 2004

PC Ian Collins 45yo from Solihull, was jailed for two-and-a-half years after he was found guilty of conspiracy to defraud finance companies. Collins offered colleagues a variety of cars.

Michael Garrett, prosecuting, said the "wheels fell off the wagon" when an anonymous letter, signed by an "honest copper" was sent to West Midlands Police alleging that Pc Collins was part of a large-scale vehicle fraud run by his father-in-law.

Mr Recorder Richard-Calder Jose said: "You knew that people were purchasing cars from you because you, as a police officer, said it was all above board."

Police chief admits false expenses - 16 November, 2001

Fined and ordered to pay £83,500 costs for falsely claiming journeys in his Porsche sports car.

Detective Inspector Graham David, 49yo former Special Branch police chief.
Claimed for visits to the Special Branch offices at Cardiff International Airport - but officers said they had rarely seen him. The court was told he had now resigned in disgrace from South Wales Police and has been forced to put his Porsche up for sale.

In total Det. Insp. David was accused of falsely claiming £300 for 71 visits to specialist units round south Wales.
But Cardiff Crown Court heard, there was no record of Det. Insp. Graham David having made some of the journeys listed.

The jury was discharged after failing to agree on all the charges.  The case was then due for a retrial.
But Det. Insp. Graham David, of de Clare Close, Porthcawl,  pleaded guilty to four charges of false accounting, totaling £56.

Detective Inspector Graham David admitted four charges of false accounting while filling out expense claim documents. Nine similar charges were dropped but were ordered to lie on the file.

(49yo how many years has he been in the police force)

Policeman jailed for corruption - 24 September 1998

Elmore Davies 50yo Detective Chief Inspector  jailed for five years 

Det. Chief Insp. Davies, a policeman for 34 years accepted a £10,000 bribe to try to sabotage the Glennon prosecution.

In July 1996 Glennon aimed a shot at a police officer outside a Liverpool nightclub and was charged with attempted murder.

 

Three policeman who see pensioners as a soft touch to rob them

PC David Clarke 45yo robbed a 89yo pensioner of £1,000  jailed for 12-month

PC Ken Davies robbed a 83yo pensioner of £700  jailed for 9 months 

PC John Morgan robbed a 89yo of £2,800  jailed for 4 years 

PC Ken Davies jailed for theft - January 13 1999

PC Ken Davies jailed for nine months.

PC K Davies, 44yo a crime prevention officer for five years visited the elderly widow 83-year-old Doris Midwood. to give her advice on crime prevention was shown where she kept her savings from her pension - in a biscuit tin - and stole £700 from the 83yo widow.

Two officers spoke to Davies and went to his home where they found an envelope containing the cash. 

Judge Robert Taylor told Davies  "This was a very serious offence. It involved a grave breach of trust and taking advantage of an elderly and vulnerable person who was looking to you to advise and protect her."

(44yo how many years has he been in the police force)

Policeman is fined for crash lies - 29 December 2005

PC James Dickson, 23yo from Stirling, who serves with Central Scotland Police, crashed his BMW in Bo'ness in March, his 18-year-old cousin was badly hurt.

PC Dickson was found guilty of failing to report the crash and lying to the ambulance service. He admitted careless driving and having no insurance.

Although his cousin suffered serious hand injuries in the crash, Dickson told people at the scene not to call the emergency services. Instead he dragged Alan Stark from the car and carried him to a friend's flat.

He phoned the ambulance service from the flat and said the injury had happened as a result of a dirt bike accident.

Dickson's lawyer told the court PC Dickson had been abusing drugs at the time and was certain to be dismissed from the force.

He was fined £560 and sentenced to 200 hours of community service.

Detective Constable bribed

Detective Constable John Donald was filmed by BBC's Panorama team accepting a £20,000 bribe from an intermediary.

Detective Constable Donald was jailed for 11 years for corruption.

The Metropolitan Police Commissioner, Sir Paul Condon, believes that up to 250 of his officers are corrupt

PC jailed for stealing money from a purse has been sacked. - 21 October, 2004

PC Jonathon Ellis 32yo from Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire, was caught in Operation Aries, which had been set up by his colleagues in Gwent Police.

He was jailed for three months earlier this week after admitting stealing £80.

PC Ellis was on duty in a police car in Abergavenny in September when he was approached by a plain clothes officer, who did not identify himself. He told the constable he had found a purse and wanted to hand it in.

The purse had contained £80 in notes, but when Ellis handed it to the station inquiry officer it was empty. He was arrested and admitted that the cash was in his pocket. Officers then checked that the serial numbers of the notes Ellis had in his pocket matched those they had earlier placed in the purse.

Ellis, a  police officer for nine years, told police in interview: "The opportunity was there so I took it."  

(It makes anyone wonder how many times he had an opportunity )

Policeman stole from children's charity - 23 September 2003

PC David Foley a retired police officer has admitted stealing thousands of pounds from a children's charity he helped to create. Jailed for 12 months.

David Foley 55yo  a  police officer for 30 years  pleaded guilty to 15 charges of theft at Newcastle Crown Court on Tuesday. He admitted stealing a total of nearly £9,800 between August 1999 and June 2000 from the Dream Foundation

PC David Foley, of Longwood Close, Gateshead, was a founder member of the charity which was set up to make dying children's wishes come true.

While 170 children had their dreams fulfilled by the charity, only £320,000 was spent on the children from overall receipts of £1.1m.

Officer guilty of fake car theft - 17 February 2006 

It shows what a police officer can get away with  for 6 years 

  • Fraud claim in January 2000 found out to be a liar in Feb 2006

PC Alan Gavin 42yo from Falkirk found guilty 

  • of faking the theft of his own car and burning it for insurance money. 
  • Sheriff Caldwell was critical of the evidence given by Gavin's father and brother, also a Central Scotland policeman.  He said that as a result, all three could face further proceedings

  • The court heard that PC Gavin pretended his car had been stolen after he could not afford a repair bill.

  • In the trial at Falkirk Sheriff Court, police constable Alan Gavin, 42, from Falkirk, was also accused of perjury and could now face further proceedings.

PC Alan Gavin and his brother took it to a spot near Armadale used by joy riders for dumping cars.  
  • GPC Alan Gavin, an officer with 20 years service, doused it in an accelerant and set it on fire,  
  • burning his hand and scorching his eyebrows in the resulting flashback, the court heard.  
  • After being treated at hospital, Gavin reported the car had been stolen to police.  
  • He later claimed £4,225 from an insurance company and bought a replacement car.  
  • The incident, in January 2000, came to light following allegations from Gavin's estranged wife.  
  • Sheriff Caldwell said that Gavin had been "vague and dissembling" in his evidence.

Deferring sentence for reports, he told Gavin: 'Because of the gravity of these charges and your position in the community, a custodial sentence is in the circumstances almost inevitable.'

Scottish Crime Squad detective PC Alan Gavin, from Falkirk, will instead carry out 240 hours community service  thanks to a plea by his 14-year-old daughter.

Sheriff Caldwell said: it would have been appropriate to jail him for "a significant period" for committing a double fraud.

He told Gavin: "If this case had been prosecuted before a sheriff and jury you'd be facing a sentence of two to three years' imprisonment.

Policeman for 27 years jailed for extortion - 31 March 2000

Richard Ferguson QC, defending, said Harrington was a  police officer  for 27 years  had served in the Thames Valley.

Det. Sgt. Robert Harrington 58yo a former Detective Sergeant was convicted at the Old Bailey of  trying to extort money from the former National Hunt champion jockey Jamie Osborne has been jailed for 18 months for obtaining £500 by deception from Mr Osborne and was given a concurrent 18 month sentence for corruption

Harrington, from Reading, Berkshire, convinced Mr Osborne, 31, (who was investigated - and later eliminated from inquires - in connection with race-fixing allegations) that he would be implicated  unless he paid a bribe of £2000 to police officers to avoid being charged.
The outraged jockey immediately contacted Scotland Yard, which launched an investigation by its Complaints Investigation Bureau (CIB2).

I was Stabbed claim - Report 5 December 2003
(Yes the same PC Kevin Hicks who was guilty of sex with under an age child - 17 September, 2004)

PC Kevin Hicks 37 reported being attacked in the Southmead area of Bristol and a police investigation and search were carried out.

PC Kevin Hicks has now been cautioned for wasting police time:

  • Following an investigation into claims that he stabbed himself to win compensation. 

  • A panel of senior officers will decide in the New Year whether he can keep his job.

  • The Crown Prosecution Service later conducted an inquiry after suspicions were raised over the circumstances of the injury. 

No more information is available

Officer sentenced for sick leave fraud - 25 March 2003

PC Andrew Hesketh 42yo  22 years of service with Greater Manchester Police (GMP), was found guilty of eight charges of dishonestly obtaining money by deception last month. Hesketh pleaded guilty to obtaining money by deception and ordered to complete community service.

Hesketh injured his back at work in 1996, and underwent surgery. Four years later he claimed he slipped at Bury police station on a recently-mopped floor and that the accident had aggravated his original back injury. He went off sick in November 2000 and never worked as an officer again.

Hesketh had also been receiving incapacity benefit from the Benefits Agency from May 16, 2001, to which the eight charges are related

In October 2001, the force's Discipline and Complaints Branch were tipped off that Hesketh was working as an parachute instructor at Hibaldstow airfield in North Lincolnshire. 

Inspector guilty of selling stolen bikes - 25 Feb 2005

A Royal Parks officer has been ordered to do 220 hours community service for selling stolen bikes on the internet.

Insp. David Humphrey 41yo was found guilty of nine counts of handling stolen goods and two of false accounting at a trial in January.

Insp. David Humphrey from Wimbledon, south- west London, was arrested in August 2003 after the owner of one of the stolen items recognised his £700 custom built cycle being advertised.

Insp. David Humphrey  was sentenced at Kingston Crown Court on Friday.

Ten bicycles valued from £700 to £1,500 were found in Humphrey's flat by officers from the Wandsworth Financial Investigations Unit.

A Royal Parks constabulary spokesman said: "The constabulary maintains the highest levels of professionalism and probity and any sort of criminal activity by a police officer is deplorable." He added that Mr Humphrey was no longer a member of the Royal Parks Constabulary, having resigned.

One officer said: "He got promoted - not sacked - after previously being caught drink driving.

(He is allowed to resign, he is not sacked, probably so he still gets his pension  -No more information is available

Police chief jailed over fraud - 29 January, 2002

Superintendent Michael Hurn 55yo was branded a ruthless liar by the judge after a three-month trial at Newport Crown Court. Jailed for two years

The Cardiff East divisional chief launched a series of bogus cigarette cards featuring the official South Wales Police logo which were sold for more than £10,000 to collectors across the UK.

Hurn was suspended on full pay ... about £60,000 five years ago when police first launched an investigation into his collectable cigarette cards business. (£60,000 for being on suspension --- Crime does pay)

Hurn was also found guilty of perverting the course of justice by asking an artist who had designed some of the cards to lie to the police.

(55yo how many years has he been in the police force)

Charity theft policeman jailed - 4 January, 2002

PC Pat Lane from Essex who  stole cash from a friend dying of cancer has been jailed for three months.

PC Pat Lane 36yo raised more than £1,700 after arranging a sponsored head shave at Clacton Police Station on 22 January 1998 for his friend Clare Archer, who has since died. PC Pat Lane failed to hand over any money to Ms Archer until a year later when he was pressed by her and a senior police inspector.

Judge Simon Barham told Lane: "Only a custodial sentence can be justified. "You received at least £1,042 and spent it on yourself.

Policeman jailed for 'brazen' theft- 16 May 2003

PC Reginald Lilley who stole a camcorder during a raid on a house filled with illegal immigrants has been jailed for six months.

PC Reginald Lilley 45yo even offered the Sony machine to three other officers before taking it himself from the house in Wyberton, Lincolnshire. The camcorder was later found hidden at the Lincolnshire policeman's home, but when questioned he claimed he had taken it for someone else.

William Harbage, prosecuting, told a jury that 

  • Pc Reginald Lilley  carried out the thefts "openly and brazenly".
  • Another officer had found the camera and was suspicious about how an illegal immigrant could afford such an expensive luxury item.
  • "But Pc Lillley took it from him and said words to the effect of 'Which one of you is having it?'  
  • It was a totally inappropriate comment for an officer to make," Mr Harbage prosecuting said.

(This is 'NOT' the first time I have heard of police stealing property and shows that this type of offence must be very common, when a police officer 45yo takes property from a house)

How many times have people complained of a theft by a police officer and told there is no proof

Police inspector jailed for dead dad scam - 6 July, 2005

Police inspector Anthony Mark Long 38yo, used a bank account to conceal a six-figure sum run-up through a life-assurance scam and credit card deception. jailed for 18 months.

The police inspector hid money his dying father had fraudulently salted away

(So for many years a 'Police inspector' knew that his father was committing criminal offences) 

Nottingham Crown Court heard Insp. Anthony Long's career with the Lincolnshire force was now in ruins.

Sentencing him, Judge John Burgess said he had brought disgrace on himself and the police force.

 

Insp Anthony Mark Long  of Park Mews in Retford, Notts, his mother Mavis, 61, and wife Andrea, 34, had denied multiple fraud charges.  Mavis, from Rossington, South Yorks, was jailed for 21 months while Andrea received community service.  
The father John Long was diagnosed with an aggressive and incurable form of cancer in June 1998.
He opened 33 bank accounts and credit cards with 16 different financial institutions before his death in April 2001.
As his condition became critical, his family began to empty his credit card accounts while he was in hospital and even after his death.

PC lying to get compensation awards 11 November, 2002

PC William Milne 44, from Hornchurch, Essex lied about injuries suffered while arresting criminals and was awarded thousands of pounds in compensation has been jailed for nine months.
  • claimed he suffered a broken jaw and severe neck and back bruising in repeated applications for taxpayers' money.
  • Milne had also "deliberately lied" on three occasions when he told the 'CIC board' he had never claimed compensation before.
  • He  received  £4,050 from the Criminal Injuries Compensation
  • he had made many other unsuccessful applications. 

Three policeman who see pensioners as a soft touch to rob them

PC David Clarke 45yo robbed a 89yo pensioner of £1,000  jailed for 12-month

PC Ken Davies robbed a 83yo pensioner of £700  jailed for 9 months 

PC John Morgan robbed a 89yo of £2,800  jailed for 4 years 

Pc John Morgan robbed a pensioner - 11 April 2006 

PC John Morgan 48yo of Frinton-on-Sea, Essex, was found guilty of two counts of forgery and one of using a copy of a false instrument.

Pc John Morgan  jailed for four years  

He was found guilty of stealing almost £280,000 from 89yo pensioner Miss Joan Harpin

John Morgan, 48, of Frinton-on-Sea, Essex, lived lavishly on Pensioner 89yo Joan Harpin's money while he was a constable with the Metropolitan Police.

He gained access to Miss Harpin's assets by persuading her to give him power of attorney.

Judge Christopher Mitchell told Basildon crown court Morgan saw her as a "goose who laid golden eggs".

PC John Morgan bought gifts including a Rolex and Audi. Police said he had left her with just £6,000 but his bank accounts have been frozen as officers try to recover Miss Harpin's money.

Peter Gare, for the Crown Prosecution Service said." John Morgan could get her money and hopefully get away with it because no-one would believe her when she would say well where's all my money gone? She wouldn't even know it was gone half the time." 

Housing grants fraud - September 28, 1999

ex Superintendent Richard Morgan - a former senior police officer with the Dyfed Powys force has been jailed for his part in a £500,000 housing renovation grants fraud. Richard Morgan was sentenced to two years in prison after he admitted five charges of deception and one of money laundering. His brother Reginald was jailed for a year.

The court heard he was the brains behind the fraud. He profited to the tune of £76,000. Now he has to pay back over £300,000. 

A four-year police inquiry centered on properties owned by the Morgan family in Llandrindod Wells. It uncovered false invoices submitted to the old Radnorshire District council for work that was never done.

Theft attempt ex-officer jailed  - 13 October, 2004

PC Kurtis Nwadika-Jonathan  admitted trying to steal thousands of pounds from fund for deprived children
has been jailed for 18 months.

The officer's wife, Edith, was given a 120-hour community service order after admitting two counts of deception in a separate hearing.

Kurtis Nwadika-Jonathan of Newham CID, pleaded guilty to aiding and abetting his colleague Uche Wogu. Nwadika-Jonathan was taped talking about being "a rich man this year" and the fact the cash "would allow me to be free".

Wogu, a financial manager at the Learning Trust, which runs Hackney's education services, admitted misconduct charges and was jailed for two years. Wogu was heard talking about "making as much money as possible" and paying a visit to his native Nigeria.

The offences, committed between 1998 and 1999, involved more than £6,000 of housing and council tax benefits from Enfield Borough Council, north London. They were eventually arrested just days after the London Borough of Hackney decided to give them £10,000 of taxpayers' cash.

Policeman stole from colleagues - 27 May, 2005

PC Brian Pritchard 43yo of Taylor Street, Rawtenstall, was convicted of stealing £6,700 in April. The court heard the money had since been repaid.

He was ordered to complete a 120 hours community punishment order.

Judge Andrew Blake told him: "I am not going to send you to prison.

"I do not think that is in your interest, but much more importantly I do not think in the interests of the public at large." 

  • (PC Pritchard certainly didn't want to go to prison 
  • Many people will be surprised that a judge thinks this is a reason not to send him to prison 
  • when Police sergeant Martin Binney gets 2 months for stealing £5)

(43yo how many years has he been in the police force)

Officer sold secrets to gangsters - 7 April 2006

PC Gregory O'Leary 39yo gained information from force computers which was then sold to the underworld for £1,000 a time.

The court heard Gregory O'Leary who joined the force in 1985, could have made up to £80,000 from selling information. 21 years a police officer

PC Gregory O'Leary of Allerton, Liverpool, was caught on CCTV surveillance visiting Mark Mitchell, asking whether someone who had asked for information was going to pay for it.

The court was told O'Leary was caught after Merseyside Police received information that retired Pc Mark Mitchell, who mentored O'Leary when he first joined the force, was involved in criminal activity.
ex PC Mark Mitchell of Litherland, was jailed for two years and 11 months after pleading guilty to conspiracy to corrupt. O'Leary was passing information to him gleaned from the force's computers, which would then be sold on to criminals for £1,000 a time.

PC jailed for theft of gun - August 17, 2000

PC Desmond Pearson 53yo of Rossington Doncaster gave away a pistol handed in during a guns amnesty in March 1997 was jailed for six months at Sheffield crown court yesterday. Desmond Pearson, a firearms licensing officer in South Yorkshire, had been found guilty at an earlier trial of theft.
He was also convicted of stealing two other guns and cash, and false accounting. The court heard Pearson stole money taken from people renewing firearms certificates.

(53yo how many years has he been in the police force)

Police officer admits crash fraud - Two police officers in a insurance scam  - 24 October 2007

WPC Linzi Sherry has admitted carrying out the fraud after crashing her uninsured sports car in a field. She formed an elaborate scheme to con her insurance company out of almost £6,000 has narrowly escaped a jail sentence.

The former Tayside Police constable has been sentenced to 220 hours community service at Perth Sheriff Court.

She has also been banned from driving for four months and ordered to pay £5,000 compensation, the maximum allowed.

The court heard WPC Sherry had been driving illegally, without insurance, when she crashed her Vauxhall Tigra on the A977 Kinross to Kincardine road on 16 January 2007

A week later, she applied to an insurance company for cover, and waited another month to report the accident.

The insurance firm agreed to cover the total cost of repairing the damage, amounting to £5,658.

The court was told the scheme was exposed when a relative went to the authorities following a family dispute.

Resigned in disgrace

PC Mark McLuckie had handed over the fraudulent insurance documents to the force. 

As a result WPC Linzi Sherry and her boyfriend PC Mark McLuckie also a police officer lost their jobs with Tayside Police

Theft from charity - Feb 2002

PC Mark Slater Jailed for four months after stealing a charity collection made in memory of a colleague who died of cancer.

The court was told Slater organized a fundraising ball in memory of Sergeant Clive Holmyard in July 1999. Slater organized a raffle and an auction and up to 400 people attended

Four weeks later Slater, who faced massive debts, went on holiday to the United States with Perry and their children. They withdrew hundreds of dollars each day and bought the children new bikes for Christmas.

Perry, 34, a former special constable, was also sentenced at Manchester's Minshull Street Crown Court. She was given 100 hours community service.

Det. Insp. stole £60,000 - 15 July, 2003 - 

Christopher Spackman Detective Inspector 25 years a police officer who stole £60,000 of police confiscated money has been jailed for four years .

Det. Insp. Christopher Spackman bought his girl friend Joanne Fletcher, 32yo who had previous criminal convictions designer clothes, a luxury holiday and paid a deposit towards an £8,000 car.

Det. Insp. Christopher Spackman told two men suspected of obtaining the money illegally that they could not have it back and attempted to steal £60,000 confiscated by police like a "seasoned fraudster", a court heard.
He tricked a Hertfordshire Police accountant into giving him a cheque made out to one of the men - and then tried to cash it, the Old Bailey was told. He decided to siphon off the money seized from suspected criminals at an M25 service station

Det. Insp. Spackman of Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire, and Joanne Fletcher, 32, of Aldernham, near Watford, jailed for 12 months. Both pleaded guilty to theft. 

Det. Insp. Spackman had also enlisted burglar Trevor Powell 46yo of Watford, to help him. Powell was jailed for 15 months.

Corrupt 'Sweeney' officers jailed - only reported in 27 June 2003

Five detectives were jailed two years ago in one of the biggest anti-corruption investigations in the UK, it has emerged. The five Flying Squad police officers based at Rigg Approach in Walthamstow, north east London were convicted of stealing more than £200,000 of the money recovered after a £.4m security van hijack in Jan 1995. The Metropolitan Police (MPS) said on Friday.

They were: Retired Detective Inspector Fred May, and Detective Sergeant Eamonn Harris and Detective Constable David Howell were convicted in January 2001 ........ each sentenced to seven years.

Detective Constable Terence McGuinness and retired Detective Constable Kevin Garner both sentenced to seven years  in jail in January 2001 They also pleaded guilty to a range of other offences including conspiracy to pervert the course of justice and conspiracy to steal. They admitted burglary of  an east London flat in Dec 1997 and taking 80kg of cannabis. Reported October 14, 1998

Their convictions were upheld by the Court of Appeal in February 2003.

The final toll of the five-year investigation is five officers jailed, one still suspended, three dismissed or told to resign and six retired.

 2 Innocent men convicted by the above corrupt police officer Det Con Garner are released from prison 

Three men who were serving 10 years for armed robbery had their convictions quashed  at the court of appeal on 12 July 2000 Garner was the officer who claimed to have found the stun gun in Mr Martin's flat under a cushion on his sofa.  McGuinness was also there during the search, which took place nine months after the robbery. 

Quashing the convictions, Lord Justice Henry, Mrs Justice Bracewell and Mr Justice Richards, said: 

  • "It would be curious if so incriminating an item were to be found so ill concealed by a surprise raid nine months after the alleged use of that weapon.
  • " They noted there was no forensic evidence linking the stun gun to the one used in the robbery.

Tax fraud - 27 Oct 2003

Neil Walker A former police officer who lived a luxury lifestyle in Las Vegas has been Jailed for five-and-a-half years on tax fraud charges.

Former Nottinghamshire Police detective constable Neil Walker, 47, was involved in an international mobile phone sales fraud which avoided nearly £6. 5m in unpaid tax. Earlier this year Walker was convicted of one count of conspiracy to cheat the public revenue of nearly £3.1m following a three-month trial.

He admitted a further count of conspiracy worth £3. 4m

Insurance fraud policeman jailed - 5 January 2006

PC Richard Wilmot-Day 49yo of Biggleswade, Beds, made claims for repairs to his motorbike which he had not carried out, St Albans Crown Court heard.

PC Richard Wilmot-Day has been jailed for a year for making false insurance claims worth more than £1000.

The Herts Police officer was convicted last month of making a false claim and acting in a way which intended to pervert the course of justice. "You displayed a breathtaking degree of arrogance," said Judge Geoffrey Breen.

(49yo how many years has he been in the police force)

Officer 'stole £10 from sergeant' - 12 May, 2004 Constable Russell Wisener

A policeman with 20 years of service   from Londonderry faces losing his job after he was found  guilty of stealing £10 from his sergeant's office

The two £5 notes were taken from a filing cabinet in the office in December 2002.

(What else must he have taken in 20 years when he risks his pension for £10)

No more information is available

Assault - grievous bodily harm - torture plot - Serious life injuries - Cruelty - 25 Police officers

Policeman jailed for drunken attack -  11 June 2003

A drunk police officer PC John Beresford leaves a man brain damaged for life and the sentence for the police officer is a mere 15 months and he will probably only serve 8 months 

-- BRITISH JUSTICE GONE MAD --

A policeman leaves a man 'Brain dead for life' and his sentence is 15 months 

People get longer sentences for not paying a speeding fine

15 Months for attacking a man and leaving him brain damaged for life

John Beresford 44yo Detective Constable  knocked 43yo  Graeme McMillan to the ground with a single punch, causing his head to strike the pavement which left him brain damaged for life

A jury found him guilty of causing grievous bodily harm at Newcastle Crown Court on Tuesday. 
On Wednesday the judge jailed Det Constable John Beresford for only 15 months.

Sentencing him Judge John Milford said: "Had you been sober it wouldn't have happened, but it did and you have shattered a man's life and that of his immediate family."

In a statement issued after the sentence. 

  • Mr McMillan's wife Carole said: Graeme sustained horrific brain injuries from which he hasn't fully recovered.
  • He was a loving husband and a devoted father before this incident but now he's almost like a stranger to me. 
  • Our lives will never be the same again.
Police dog cruelty sentences cut - March 5 1999 

PC Kenneth Boorman who was a dog trainer at Sandon, Essex, was found guilty of six charges. Abandoned his appeal against conviction but contested the sentence and had his four-month jail sentence reduced by a month.  He admitted  instructing handlers to kick dogs on five occasions.
Sgt Andrew White, 38yo a former sergeant who was head of training at the dog section headquarters, had also been given a four-month jail sentence after being convicted of seven cruelty charges.

On appeal Judge Yelton rejected his appeal against the convictions but reduced his sentence to a 28-day jail term, suspended for a year
PC Stephen Hopkins was convicted of cruelty after Acer's death in 1997. He was ordered to do 200 hours of community service and pay £1,000 towards prosecution costs he was also reprimanded but allowed to stay in the police force.
White and Boorman were dismissed from Essex Police 

Three police officers have told a jury how they were all instructed to string up their dogs and kick them in the stomach to train them to be less aggressive.

  • PC English, told how he was instructed to hang his dog over a wooden wall by its lead then kick the animal as it hung off the ground. 
  • He said he was given the order by PC Stephen Hopkins during a course at the Essex police dog training unit in Sandon, near Chelmsford.

Sergeant White said "I was aware that there was very deep resentment towards PC Boorman, from PCs Kieran Dale and PC Gary Talbot and PC Talbot said he would not let a fat little Hitler train their dogs."  

  • (It's nice to know that there are police officers that speak up against police thugs)

Sergeant White had said routine physical abuse of Essex police dogs had been going on since at least the late 1970s
(If this is true this shows there are a lot of police officers that enjoy abusing police dogs and everyone in the police dog unit would have known what was happening) including Inspector Graham Curtis

Between September and November last year. It was alleged during the three-week trial at Chelmsford Crown Court that dogs who misbehaved were swung around in the air by their leads "helicopter fashion".

The dogs choke chains were used to hang them from fences and posts as they were beaten. 

The death of German Shepherd Acer, who was raised from a puppy by police, horrified dog lovers and caused untold damage to the image of all professional dog training centres. 
Acer, died in 1997 after being kicked several times by its handler PC Mark Needham while hanging from a lead at the Essex Police dog section headquarters at Sandon last November.  (No report what charges were made against PC Mark Needham)

Inspector Graham Curtis, section head of the training centre,  was found not guilty of three charges of failing to issue an order to prevent unnecessary suffering to animals.
(As usual the man at the top always say 'I KNOW NOTHING' they never know what is happening, it makes me wonder what they do know and what they get paid for)

Police say that while the case is horrifying, it is an isolated incident. 
(Isolated for 20 years since the late 1970s according to ex Sgt White)

Policeman jailed for kicking man - 14 February, 2003

PC Matthew Dunn twice kicked a man as he lay on the ground has been jailed for three months for common assault.

Judge Christopher Elwen said the kicks Dunn delivered to John Hughes' legs went beyond "reasonable force"  

A witness said  the first kick was like a "penalty kick".

Judge Christopher Elwen said 

  • He was satisfied the Mr Hughes had been flat on his back when he was assaulted and not "crouching like a sprinter" as the constable had claimed.
  • He added: "That conclusion was reinforced by the shock of bystanders, none of whom could see a reason for the kicks.
  • For a constable to assault a suspect on the ground with his foot is so great a breach of the trust the public reposes in the police.... custody is inevitable.

Policeman jailed for vicious assault - on appeal 200 hours community service and to pay £2,500 costs. 

PC Keith Empsall has been found guilty of common assault. - 19 September, 2002  

PC Keith Empsall (who was captured on video by an amateur film maker Mark Goodwin) kicking and punching an unresisting Christopher Wilson in a street in Wakefield, in June 2001 was convicted at Leeds magistrates' court.
He was jailed for two months but was released on bail pending the appeal.

District Judge Christopher Darnton found PC Keith Empsall guilty. I do not believe the force used was reasonable. There was definitely a kick-out, followed by three distinct blows to the face of Christopher Wilson moving backwards. 
Christopher Wilson [the victim] was clearly not demonstrating any signs of fighting back. 

  • Chris Wilson has been paid £7,500 in an out-of-court settlement for the assault - 7 May 2004 

Prosecuting, David Bradshaw, told the appeal at Leeds Crown Court that the attack was "unprovoked and unnecessary".

1 August, 2003 - Judge Norman Jones QC, sitting at Leeds Crown Court, dismissed the appeal against the conviction, saying the force Empsall used could not be construed as self defence.
But he has overturned the original jail term and ordered Empsall to do 200 hours community service and pay £2,500 costs.

Police constable jailed for six months for assault - November 18, 1997


PC Paul Evans 32 from Stoke Newington police station was convicted of assaulting a reveller at a festival for the homeless has been jailed for six months at the Old Bailey. He was found guilty of assaulting Ben Swarbrick by beating him, and of affray. 

Judge Graham Boal told the Old Bailey. The constable had "a duty to uphold law and order but had instead behaved like "a coward and a bully" when he assaulted Ben Swarbrick. PC Paul Evans "had brought shame on himself and disgrace on his profession", a policeman for 10 years 

Mr Swarbrick said afterwards: "I was brutally assaulted by PC Evans that night. I'm not too happy with the verdict but I'm glad it's all out of the way now.

Stoke Newington police station in north London has a history of assaults and many deaths in custody including 

Sarah Thomas 35yo fit healthy A Chinese woman architectural design student. Police say she had fit and died in Stoke Newington Police Station on 6th August 1999
Arrested for acting suspiciously waiting for her boyfriend OUTSIDE HER OWN HOUSE

Harry Stanley 46yo walking home shot by SO19 police 22 Sept 1999 It was the 11th death in five years involving the police in the Hackney and Stoke Newington area.

Shiji Lapite was stopped by two police officers for "acting suspiciously". Half an hour later he was dead. 
Mr Lapite 34yo died  in Stoke Newington police station in December 1994, Inquest verdict unlawfully killed. He was found to have up to 45 injuries and died from asphyxiation after being held in a neck-hold.

Mr Kwame Wiredu dies in Stoke Newington Police Station 2002

Assault - 2 Nov 2000

Colin Hay police sergeant has been convicted of assaulting two sailors in cells at Dunfermline Police Station.

Sergeant Colin Hay, 37, was found guilty of assaulting Simon Bissett and Robert Hawley, both from HMS Southampton. The trial at Dunfermline Sheriff Court also heard criticism of two other police officers following the assaults in January 1999. 

Simon Bissett told the court he had been beaten up by Hay with a wooden truncheon. Robert Hawley said he had been kicked in the ribs and beaten about the head.

The force said that comments by Sheriff Stuart Forbes about constables Denise Graham and Douglas Moyes would be considered before further action was taken.
Depute fiscal Mrs Jane Benson accused WPC Graham of turning a blind eye to certain events. No more information is available

Police driver jailed - December 22, 1998

PC Ian Hill has been jailed for two years after breaking a prisoner's neck by deliberately driving erratically.  He was taking two prisoners to Margate police station in Kent in a van last year when he made several emergency stops for no reason. Canterbury Crown Court heard Hill also swerved, throwing two prisoners around in the back of the van.

Pc Kim Burgess was told by Kent's Chief Constable David Phillips that even though he had been found guilty of perverting the course of justice, he would keep his job in Thanet's crime reduction unit because he had spoken out against a colleague. Burgess said he was frightened of Hill and could not stop his erratic driving, which was why he wrote a false account.

Both officers were also convicted of perverting the course of justice by falsifying pocket books and witness statements.

Assault charges - 221 February, 2000 

PC Michael Anthony Hughes, 36, is charged with assaulting Adam Lamonby while arresting him in Bournemouth last April. The court heard that the 'Controller of CCTV cameras in Bournemouth', Simon Trowbridge, recorded the incident after observing the arrest of Mr Stubbs and then sent the tape to the Dorset Police, who launched an internal investigation. Criminal proceedings were then started.

A CCTV recording of the officer arresting Mr Lamonby and then - Gareth Evans prosecuting, told the court, PC Hughes was "bouncing Mr Lamonby's head off the back windscreen of his patrol car".

PC Hughes denied the charge of common assault and said he was confronted with a baying mob of youths.

But Mr Evans said the group of four men on the CCTV video appeared to be calmly waiting for a taxi at the time of the incident.

(No more information is available - Many times when police are recorded on CCTV assaulting people for no apparent reason there seems to be little information about charges and if any verdicts reported.)

Policeman punch up with policeman and policewoman - 5 March, 2004

PC Mike Jones 44yo who attacked two colleagues after he was caught drink-driving has been jailed for six months.
Jones was a police officer for 27 years.

PC Jones 44-year-old had pleaded guilty in January to assaulting Pc Lucy Powell at Stroud police station last November and assaulting Sergeant Christopher Price and failing to give a required specimen. 

Gloucester magistrates heard how PC Mike Jones hit Pc Powell in the face and pushed Sgt Price to the ground after being caught drink-driving in Gloucester.

A further six police officers were needed to carry Jones into custody in the police station. 

Assault October 17, 2007

Damien McColgan former policeman who spanked his 17-year-old au pair after ordering her to dress up in a school uniform has been found guilty of indecent assault.

Damien McColgan, a father-of-three with an interest in 'school-style discipline', bent the Austrian teenager over his knee and smacked her bottom six times at his home in Greenford, Middlesex.

But Judge Richard McGregor-Johnson, at Isleworth Crown Court, told McColgan, 38, he would not be sent to jail because the offence was 'not at that level of seriousness'.

Policeman jailed for attack - 14 March 2003

PC Colin Minter  28 years as a police officer has been jailed for 42 months for attacking his estranged wife's partner Lenny Taylor.

PC Colin Minter 50, of Chichester Close, Aveley, Essex   

  • Grabbed Lenny Taylor by the throat and pinned him to the ground 
  • while his son Nathan, 27, beat him with a wooden chair leg. 
  • The pair then repeatedly punched and kicked Mr Taylor as he lay curled up on the floor.

Jailing PC Colin Minter, Judge Nicholas Medawar said: "In your unjustified attack on Mr Taylor you caused him very serious injuries with some permanent damage.
Nathan Minter, of Upminster Road, North Rainham, Essex, was given a two-year suspended sentence.

2 Detective jailed after torture plot - 7 June, 2002 - What else has he been doing in 21 years as a policeman

Detective Constable Martin Morgan has been  sentenced to seven years in jail after his plans to track down and torture a businessman. 
Morgan had been a policeman for 21 years and was based in the robbery squad at Barkingside police station, east London.

Detective Declan Costello also from the robbery squad at Barkingside police station, has also been jailed for two-and-a-half years.

The court heard that Det Con Morgan gave instructions on how to use plastic handcuffs and then said: "After we have got hold of him, we will think about what to do with him." Kean, 54, of Norwich, and Wood, 45, of Waltham Cross, Hertfordshire, pleaded guilty to the same charge.
Wood, and Costello, 36, of Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to cause Mr X actual bodily harm.

The men also talked of how to dispose of a body, including placing it in a crusher.  Det Con Martin Morgan pleaded guilty to conspiracy to falsely imprison Mr X. 

PC found guilty of headbutting - 25 November, 1999

Pc Iain Myers, 28yo asked company director John Greaves "What are you looking at?" before punching and headbutting him on his left temple, at a public school cheese and wine evening. South Sefton magistrates' court heard.
The court heard that the incident happened after Pc Iain Myers, of Crosby, Merseyside, also had an altercation with English teacher Matthew Purnell.

Company director Mr Greaves from Crosby, Merseyside, said Myers had head-butted and punched him.
David Turner, prosecuting, said Pc Iain Myers caused Mr Greaves bruising to the left eye and the assault exaggerated his tinnitus.

Prison wardens sacked over death 'joke' - 17 December, 2001

Two warders from Wales's sacked from the first privately-run prison after giving an in-mate a hoax note warning of his family's death. The prisoner at Parc Prison near Bridgend, south Wales, is said to have been distressed by the message which said his entire family had been wiped out in a fire.

The pair returned 20 minutes later to explain the claim was a joke.

Heather Mills reports on a system that allows violence, corruption and dishonesty to go unpunished - 14th February 1999

WPC Gillian Pattinson and PC Mark Astley - Accessory to assault 

PC Mark Astley was accused of assault. He was allowed to resign on a full pension before any disciplinary action was taken.

  • NO CRIMINAL CHARGES RECORDED AGAINST the  POLICE OFFICERS.
  • WPC Gillian Pattinson turned a blind eye while her 
  •  colleague kicked a young black man as he lay helpless in the back of a van, hands cuffed behind his back. 
  • She did nothing to stop the attack on Delroy Hylton or help him as he screamed in pain. 
  • She also failed to report the assault. 

WPC Pattinson was found guilty at a police disciplinary hearing this month of being an accessory to the assault. 

  • If the offence had been tried in a criminal court, she could have been sent to jail, but she only lost five days' pay. 

Delroy Hylton's 'crime' had been to protest at the brutal arrest of his neighbours.

  • But then he, too, was assaulted, arrested, detained, fingerprinted, then charged with affray and obstruction.
  • Charges thrown out when the case against his neighbour, David Charles, collapsed.

Editor: My thoughts on this report

No charges reported against PC Mark Astley.

  • So if any policeman is fed up with being a policeman 
  • Just assault and kick anyone who is helpless, 
  • Bring false charges against them 
  • Then when you are seen as a police thug who should be charged with a criminal offence
  • Resign on a full pension and you will not be charged with a criminal offence
Judge calls detective 'devious' - 16 November, 2004

Det Con Martin Sylvester was convicted of assaulting a former girlfriend and possessing cannabis was told by a judge he was "devious and manipulative".

Det Con Martin Sylvester, 50, who works for Cambridgeshire police and has been an officer for 25 years, is due to be sentenced in January.

In October, he was convicted by a jury at Luton Crown Court of assaulting Louise Ellis, 35, causing actual bodily harm. A different jury on Tuesday found him guilty of possessing cannabis after a second trial at Luton.

Judge Maher, who is scheduled to pass sentence on 28 January at Aylesbury Crown Court, told Sylvester he would not be jailed, but would be fined. "I regard you as devious and manipulative. I have had the chance to watch you for a number of hours and you are a wriggler" the judge told him.

For about 20 years NO OTHER police officers had complained of Pc Gary Waddoups using metal handcuffs clenched in his fist  to punch someone .....  so we can assume they all do it at some time.

Policeman jailed for attack

For about 20 years no police officer had complained of Pc Gary Waddoups using metal handcuffs clenched in his fist  we can assume they all do it at some time.

PC Gary Waddoups caught on CCTV cameras punching 31-year-old Stephen Ryan three times in the stomach with metal handcuffs clenched in his fist has been found guilty of causing actual bodily harm.

PC Gary Waddoups a  policeman for more than 20 years, argued his actions were an accepted technique.

The incident happened outside the Merrion Hotel Leeds on 15th Dec 2001. 
The violent assault  was caught on camera and the tape handed into police by hotel security staff. The jury had been shown the hotel's CCTV recording of the officer punching 31-year-old Stephen Ryan.

Miss Georgina Harber said she and three friends were waiting for the cab on Wade Lane, Leeds, after the party at the Merrion Hotel in the early hours of 15 December. He kneed him or kicked him in the back when he was down. I remember thinking it was out of order.

  •   He kneed him or kicked him in the back when he was down. I remember thinking it was out of order.

Gail Scot, another member of the group, told the court 

  • She was surprised by Mr Ryan's passive reaction after she saw him thrown to the floor. 
  • She said that Mr Ryan's multiple "polite" requests for the handcuffs to be loosened were ignored. 
  • "I could not believe his attitude, he wasn't swearing, he wasn't raising his voice or anything. I couldn't believe how calm he was.
  • Gail Scot told the officer he was "bang out of order" but he had replied. 
  • Shut up you wittering, drunken women or you will be arrested as well. Ms Scott added. 
  • (As many people know if you speak up against the police .. you will be charged with untrue offences)

No more information is available

Policeman jailed after attack on ex-wife - 18 May 2007

 

PC Duncan Warry a Hampshire police officer has today been jailed for four months after trying to strangle his ex-wife with the strap of her own handbag.

PC Duncan Warry, a police officer for 29 years burst into the house in Portchester, where his former wife Joanne was staying following their recent divorce. He ignored her demand to leave, grabbed her, forced her face down to the floor and knelt on her back to pin her down. Mrs Warry suffering bruising to her neck and bleeding to her eyes.

 

PC Duncan Warry put his hands around her throat and began throttling her. As she struggled, she felt a leather strap being put around her neck and pulled tight.

Prosecuting, Esther Schutzer-Weissmann told Guildford Crown Court that it was only the thought of their children, two boys aged 12 and five, coming home from school and finding her dead that gave her the strength to fight her ex-husband off.

Judge rules police assaulted John Wilson - 6 July, 2001

John Wilson innocent bystander was knocked unconscious. A judge has ruled that John Wilson who suffered a fractured skull was a victim of "deliberate unlawful assault" by the Metropolitan Police.

He now suffers from grand mal epilepsy and had his first attack five days after he was knocked unconscious.
John Wilson, 21, will now seek £500,000 in costs and damages from the force.

Police loose appeal against the above verdict

This shows the police cannot be trusted to conduct an investigation into charges against police, when everyone else who viewed a CCTV footage of the assault say the assault was unjustified and the police say it was an accidental collision.

The police took the case to the appeal court, where on Thursday ---Three judges upheld Mr Justice Morland's original findings in favour of Mr Wilson.
In its appeal, the police force claimed Mr Wilson's injuries were caused by an "accidental collision" with an unknown riot policeman. 

Mr Wilsons solicitor James Bell said: "It was beyond doubt that this was a vicious, unjustified and unprovoked assault by an officer.

Judge more convinced that it was no accidental collision

CCTV footage showed a riot policeman with his baton raised and shield in front of him approaching Mr Wilson who then fell backwards to the ground after being hit. The officer ran off.

Lord Justice Kay said he had watched the video many times as had the trial judge

  • He said. He reached the conclusion that Mr Wilson was the victim of "a deliberate and unlawful assault."
  • He had become more and more convinced that it was no accidental collision.
  • But the police as usual are saying ...... the police can do no wrong ...... and say it was an accident that a riot policeman thug attacks a defenseless man.
  •  (Would the police still say it was an accident if a policeman was attacked in the same way. Like hell they would.)
6 Wormwood Scrubs prison officers jailed for assault - 4 September 2001

Other officers at the prison gave evidence for the prosecution. - (it is nice to know there are exceptional officers who speak up against police thugs.)

Three prison officers have been jailed for a pre-planned attack on a prisoner at Wormwood Scrubs. 

The men were charged after fellow officers reported the violent attack.

There were ten separate trials but in the end only six other prison officers were found guilty of assault occasioning actual bodily harm. 

Your going to be another death in custody

3 prison officers Andrew Jones, 34, Daniel Brewer, 35, and Craig Atkinson, 26, were  jailed for 18 months, 15 months and 12 months respectively last summer for attacking Timothy Donovan. The court heard he was held down in his cell and punched repeatedly following a dispute over a rug.
26 Sept 2001 The Court of Appeal quashed the convictions of Andrew Jones and Daniel Brewer, who have served more than two years between them.

Three other prison officers Darren Fryer, 33, Robert Lawrie, 37, and John Nichol, 39,  

  • kicked and punched an inmate in a segregation unit cell.

  •  struck him repeatedly and told him he would die.

  • Judge Charles Byers said they placed Mr Banks in a headlock and   

  • taunted him with words such as "Do you know how easy it is to break a neck?" and 

  • "There is going to be another death in custody."

  • Held by the arms and then propelled into a wall with such force that he received an extensive wound to his forehead."

  • The officers then sought to cover their tracks by falsely charging their victim with assaulting them. 

  • They also endorsed his record as an inmate who was violent towards prison officers.

  • Darren Fryer, of Ashbourne Avenue, Barnet, north London, jailed for three-and- a-half-year 

  • Robert Lawrie, of Wadhan Road, Greenford, west London, jailed for four years 

  • John Nichol of Chinnor, Oxfordshire, jailed for four years at Blackfriars Crown Court.

Judge Byers said: "I can only conclude that  this episode was done for your own bizarre and sadistic entertainment." "You Nicol were a senior officer. You could have put a stop to what was going on. You chose not to. "
Instead, you joined in. I take the view that if you behave like a vicious thug you will be punished like a vicious thug."

 

Many times no name is given of police officers involved in offences - this is only one

Policeman accused of assaulting a senior officer  - 15 April, 2003

The policeman, who has not been named, was arrested following an incident at Sussex Police headquarters in Lewes on Thursday 10 April 2003

He has since been bailed pending further inquiries - and 

  • is believed currently to be off work on sick leave. 
  • After he was fit enough to assault a senior officer
  • The victim of the alleged assault was a detective chief inspector from the professional standards department.

A Sussex Police spokesman issued a statement on Tuesday saying: "A man has been arrested and bailed pending further inquiries following an alleged assault on a police officer at police HQ in Lewes last week.

 

 DRUG convictions - 27 police officers
These are just a few of the convictions reported

2 OFFICERS JAILED IN CORRUPTION CASE - 3 July 2003

Two of the officer's colleagues admitted burglary and taking 80kg of cannabis.

PC Kevin Garner, 38, and PC Terence McGuinness, 40, both from Essex

PC Kevin Garner, was jailed for seven years. McGuinness and Garner were exposed in an anti-corruption probe in 1997

Detective Constable Terence McGuinness based at Limehouse when he was arrested, was also jailed for seven years in 2000, after admitting to a range of offences, including conspiracy to pervert the course of justice and conspiracy to steal. The Limehouse detective was part of a Flying Squad web of corruption, it was revealed this week.

 

Prison officer jailed on drug charges - 19 April, 2001

PC Vincent Hill a Leeds prison officer from York, has been jailed for seven-and-a-half years for trying to supply ecstasy tablets with a street value of £50,000. Hill wrote down telephone numbers given to him by convicts at Armley Prison in Leeds, before setting up meetings on the outside to trade in the dance drug and clear debts.

Detective jailed for recruited his son to pull off a drugs deal - 29 October, 2004

Detective Constable William Jones 22 years as a police officer a Scotland Yard detective of Ware, Herts, admitted conspiracy to supply cannabis and wilful misconduct in a public office.  He was sentenced to two years and three months for the cannabis conspiracy and 18 months for misconduct.

Jurors heard conversations were secretly taped in his police car as he promised former robber Anselm Peries, 35, of Bushey, information about a multi-million pound hold-up.

They then heard Jones briefing his son about a drugs deal in which he wanted him to buy £425 of cannabis resin from a house linked to the informant and sell it in a pub.

10 Police officers jailed on drug charges - Aug 2001

Detective Constables Thomas Kingston, 42, and Thomas Reynolds, 39, jailed for three-and-a-half years each for selling "class B" or soft drugs seized during police raids. The Old Bailey heard two packets were worth around £7,500.

In February other police officers were jailed in connection with the case.

Robert Clark was jailed in February for 12 years, and his deputy:
Lieutenant Christopher Drury, received a  11-year sentence
Detective Constable Neil Putnam had admitted a total of 16 offences in November 1998 and was jailed for four years in February this year.
Detective Sergeant Terence O'Connell of the force's regional crime squad based in East Dulwich, in the south of the capital, was sentenced to two years in prison for intending to pervert the course of justice.

PC not charged for supplying drugs only sacked - 9 July, 2004

PC Richard Kolmer 36, who was the beat manager for Shifnal and Albrighton, was sacked after a disciplinary hearing. But not charged with a criminal offence 

The officer was told he would not be prosecuted following a two-month investigation. But after an internal inquiry he admitted possessing cocaine with intent to supply and, in doing so, he breached the police's code of conduct

2 Police officers fined over drugs - 1 August, 2003

WPC Anne McGrath 26yo and PC Paul Thompson 27yo from Salford Walkden, both pleaded guilty before Rochdale magistrates to possessing class A drugs

Greater Manchester Police says it is "disappointed and embarrassed" that two of its former officers have been convicted of drug offences.

They were both fined £500 and ordered to pay £118 costs each, when they appeared in court on Friday. They were arrested at their homes in May and later resigned from their jobs.

PC Jailed for five years - 2 August, 2002

PC Patrick Maloney - laundering money for the drug gang's ringleader and conspiring to pervert the course of justice. Jailed for 5 years

PC Patrick Maloney, who served with Devon and Cornwall Police for 18 years, tipped off members of a Plymouth drugs ring about a police investigation into their activities. Maloney admitted conspiring to pervert the course of justice.

Policeman jailed for drug smuggling

PC John McAnenny was arrested on board a yacht with drugs worth £1.5m has been jailed for seven years.
French customs officials said the boat was loaded with 200kg of cannabis with an estimated street value of £1.5m.
2 Officers jailed for drug offences - 21 August 2006

PC Duncan Mollison - a Maidenhead police officer - admitted possession of cannabis with intent to supply and misconduct in a public office.

He was sentenced to 150 hours of community service and fined £500.

WPC Victoria Hazel a Thames Valley policewoman has been  jailed for eight months after admitting possessing cannabis and giving out confidential information. One month for encouraging the release of information from the Police National Computer, and seven months for possession of a controlled drug.

Both officers were arrested following an internal investigation by Thames Valley Police. Both were suspended from duty at the time of their arrest in February 2005 and then later resigned from the force.

Prison officer in drug bid jailed - 19 April 2006

A prison officer who tried to smuggle cannabis to an inmate on his wing has been jailed for two years.

Martin Nelson 25yo the son of a prison governor, expected to be paid £1000 for supplying the drug. At the time he had £4,000 of credit card debt.

Nelson, of Minster Drive, Minster, Kent pleaded guilty to possessing cannabis with intent to supply at Swaleside Prison on the Isle of Sheppey. Maidstone Crown Court heard he was caught with 991g (35oz) of the drug.

Judge John McDonald said "The really very sad aggravating feature is that you were a prison officer and your father is a prison governor," he told him.

3 Police guilty - drug charges - November 2002 

Detective Sergeant David Redfern , 42, Derbyshire police officer pleaded guilty at Leicester Crown Court to a charge of supplying cocaine, a count of offering to supply cocaine and two offences of possessing the drug. Redfern, of Dale End Road, Hilton, Derbyshire, was jailed for three years and nine months. Det Sgt David Redfern, had his three-year-and-nine-month prison term cut by a year at the Court of Appeal.

Detective Constable Heather Bossart, 40, of Nottinghamshire Police,
also admitted a count of possessing cocaine at the address. She was serving as an NCS officer at the time of her arrest on 28 April 2001. Heather Bossart was sentenced to 100 hours community service for possession of cocaine. Heather Bossart admitted snortng cocaine

Sergeant Mark Jennison, 41 a Derbyshire police officer was sentenced to 12 months imprisonment after being found guilty of supplying and being in possession of drugs.

The court heard that Redfern, an acting detective inspector until 2000, was caught taking cocaine by a hidden video camera secretly installed by police at the home of his girlfriend Nicola Bladen, 35yo

 

Drug smuggling Customs man jailed - 17 June, 2005

Richard Riley 53yo of Dulwich, south-east London a Customs officer has been jailed for 15 years for using his position to help smuggle millions of pounds of cocaine into Britain through Gatwick Airport.

He received £25,000 in pay-offs to fund a lavish lifestyle, Southwark Crown Court heard.

He passed on confidential information and  arranged drug runs from the Caribbean and ushered couriers through Customs.

Riley admitted conspiracy to smuggle drugs and money laundering.

His wife Marjorie 51yo who helped launder the money, has also admitted her part in the operation and was given 180 hours community service.

The Rileys enjoyed a life of luxury holidays in Egypt and Barbados and spent £40,000 on a plot of land on an island where they hoped to build a home.

Prosecutor Oliver Sells QC said having Riley on side meant the smuggling became a "wholesale operation rather than one of small-scale swallowers and the like".

Couriers were so confident they did not even bother to hide the cocaine inside clothes, but instead packed the suitcases "to the brim".

On 1 July 2004 he was videoed guiding two smugglers, Stephen Abrahamson, 29, and Kelly Little, 24, through the "green channel" at Gatwick.

The suitcases they were carrying had the zips glued shut and the cases contained 31.6kg of cocaine, with an estimated value of £2.4m.

Mr Sells said the gang had smuggled "very substantial quantities" of cocaine into Britain and Riley was "absolutely central" to the operation.

Drugs

WPC Linda O'Sullivan 34yo A Royal Parks police officer caught supplying hard drugs during an elaborate undercover newspaper operation has been jailed for 18 months. O'Sullivan was secretly filmed handing over ecstasy and cocaine worth £200, she admitted two counts of supplying banned drugs at London's Snaresbrook Crown Court

Miss Mahmood taped the unsuspecting O'Sullivan boasting on a night out in a bar that she had taken cocaine and could obtain supplies of both cocaine and ecstasy. No more information is available

 
Many jail staff corrupt report - 31 July 2006 -  Report, by the Metropolitan police and Prison Service's

At least 1,000 prison staff are corrupt, and more than 500 are in "inappropriate relationships" with prisoners, according to a leaked study.

The report, by the Metropolitan police and Prison Service's anti-corruption unit, said officers were thought to be smuggling drugs and phones into jails

Juliet Lyon, director of the Prison Reform Trust, said corrupt officers undermined the service.

MISCONDUCT - 12 Police officers

PC helps girl friend run brothels. - 11th April 2005

PC Simon DeFreitas a Met police officer faces jail today after admitting helping his blonde lover Linda Stanton run a string of brothels. He was arrested in August 2003 and only resigned last week from the force.

Shamed PC Simon DeFreitas 41yo passed on police intelligence to north London sex brothel owner Linda Stanton, who he lived with in luxury at the Home Counties. Divorced DeFreitas was only discovered after a disgruntled former employee at one of the brothels told police that Stanton's boyfriend was a serving policeman.

Linda Stanton 49yo earned £50,000 a year as boss of the vice empire between 2000 and 2003 which funded her lavish lifestyle of fast cars and expensive holidays.
Harrow Crown Court heard how she ran four brothels, two of which advertised as 'Finchley Follies' and 'Whetstone Wenches.'
No more information is available

Police drink driver escapes prison AGAIN - 13 September 2004

PC Andrew Edwardes 45, from Galway Crescent, Retford, resigned after he admitted he was over the legal limit FOR THE SECOND TIME IN 3 YEARS  He was driving 20 miles from his home to Annesley Woodhouse on 10 August to investigate the murder of Keith Frogson, Mansfield Magistrates heard.

Prosecutor Jane Ball told the court Edwardes smelled of alcohol on his breath, his eyes were glazed and his speech slurred when they approached his car. When his breath was tested, he was found to be more than double the legal limit. Edwardes was sentenced to 100 hours of community service and banned from driving for three years.

The 1st drink drive offence

  • he had also been fined £5,000 and banned from the road for three years in 1999 for another drink-drive offence.
  • Edwardes was not dismissed as a policeman on that occasion after agreeing to enter into a rehabilitation programme.
2 Corrupt officers jailed for leaks - 26 October 2006

Two former Nottinghamshire police officers have been jailed after pleading guilty to corruption charges.

PC Charles Fletcher 25yo and PC Phillip Parr 40yo admitted at Birmingham Crown Court to separately passing data on serious inquiries to suspected criminals.

PC Charles Fletcher a trainee detective, was jailed for seven years 

PC Phillip Parr  was sentenced to 12 months.

The 25-year-old leaked details of investigations including the murder of Nottingham jeweller Marian Bates who was shot dead in her shop in Arnold in 2003.

Pc Charles Fletcher pleaded guilty to charges of conspiring to commit misconduct in a public office at Birmingham Crown Court. 

Fletcher admitted passing on top secret information on different cases.  Fletcher also revealed the identities of suspects, witnesses and victims involved in other cases, as well as conducting intelligence checks on suspected criminals at their request. 

Fletcher trawled police computer data bases to find information that he supplied to criminals over a two-and-a-half-year period between December 2002 and June last year.

Police officer jailed over tip-offs of police enquires - 27 April, 2005

PC Roger Gellen 40yo, of Castle Bromwich, from the West Midlands Police resigned last October, admitted two misconduct charges at a hearing earlier this year.
PC Gellen was trapped as he tried to tip off two associates that detectives were about to question them was jailed for four years and three months, resigned from the force last year after the offences became known.

He admitted two misconduct charges of inhibiting the effectiveness of a police operation and also pleaded guilty to two counts of possessing illegal ammunition.

PC Roger Gellen had earlier told the two men that detectives believed their car had been involved in an armed robbery. 

Inspector guilty of false charges - 15 May 2006

Mark Hession a Police inspector has been ordered to complete 240 hours community service after accusing his wife's lover of false driving offences.
Insp. Mark Hession was found guilty of two charges of misconduct in a public office between January and September 2005. 23 years as a police officer 
Sentencing him, Mr Justice Mitting said: "You allowed yourself to become obsessed by Stuart Edwards and his friendship with your wife. "You did it out of revenge, to harass him and you wanted to show him you were a powerful man who could make his life uncomfortable for him."

A jury at Stafford Crown Court heard Insp Mark Hession used the police national database to find Stuart Edwards' personal details.

Insp. Hession, 41, then issued prosecution notices of false offences against Stuart Edwards. 

PC jailed for leaking information - 4 October, 2004

PC Ghazi Kassim 53yo a  policeman for 15 years was paid to leak information on dissidents by a Saudi embassy diplomat, the Old Bailey heard he was jailed for two-and-a-half years. 

PC Ghazi Kassim was also jailed for six months to run concurrently for having a CS gas canister at his home.

On Monday, the court was told £4,000 had been traced to Kassim's bank account. Judge Peter Rook told Kassim he had abused his position with "grave breaches of trust" for "considerable profit".

Roger Smart, prosecuting, said: Ghazi Kassim conducted research into private individuals using confidential databases held by the Metropolitan Police.

Kassim had used a police computer to research the registration number of the car of Saudi dissident Muhammad Al-Massari.

Policeman jailed for indecency - 23 December, 2004

PC Anthony Smith of Hurst Park, West Molesey, Surrey an officer with the Metropolitan Police.  He denied gross indecency towards a child, but was found guilty and was jailed for 18 months on Thursday. He was  in touch with the 15yo girl for six months, a court heard.

PC Smith, who worked in the special firearms squad at Heathrow Airport, chatted online with the girl from April 2003, the court heard. He first contacted her on 5 April and was in touch with her again 10 more times before committing the offence on 23 April 2004

The victim told police child abuse experts that Smith sent her images of himself in uniform and posing with his gun.

WPC Drink driver and failing to stop after an accident - 28 September, 2004

WPC Hayley Slater  was found guilty of driving with excess alcohol, careless driving and  failing to stop at the scene of an accident.

WPC Slater is due to face a police misconduct hearing in October. It follows an investigation by West Midlands Police into a collision on 29 April in Plants Hill Crescent in Coventry. No-one was injured in the accident. No more information is available

PC sacked over parking ticket scandal - 28 February 2003

PC Paul Taylor, 36, was working for Gwent Police in Caerphilly when he was sentenced to a three-month jail term after being found guilty of perverting the course of justice by a Cardiff Crown court jury last year. 12-month conditional discharge and ordered to pay £200 costs.

PC Taylor, who had 15 years police experience, was dismissed from the force at a misconduct hearing on Friday.

During a police search of his home in March 2002 on an unrelated matter, two halves of a £30 parking ticket issued to his neighbour Raymond Lucas, 58, were discovered. 

Patrol car sex Pc spared prison - 15 March 2006

PC Raymond Waring 32yo married Cheshire police officer for 7 years had sex with his mistress, in the back of a patrol car while on duty in August 2002 has been given 200 hours community service.

He was found guilty of misconduct in public office after a trial at Chester Crown Court in December.

Judge Mr Justice Pitchford also ordered Waring, who has since been sacked by the force, to pay £500 costs. 

At the Bristol Crown Court hearing on Wednesday, he told him: "On August 11, 2002 you departed from your tour of duty and for a period of probably two hours indulged your sexual appetite with a drunken woman, with whom you were having an affair, in the back of your panda car.

Police chief quits before hearing 

Chief Constable Francis Wilkinson has resigned  and this has been accepted by Gwent Police Authority and the proceedings will not now be pursued   he was suspended from duty on full pay 17 months ago, after claims were made against him by his deputy and assistant chief constables.

  1. The allegations are believed to relate to his handling of a speeding ticket issued to a prominent councillor, 
  2. Also the awarding of contracts. 
  3. The initial allegations against Chief Constable Francis Wilkinson had already been investigated by Gloucestershire Chief Constable Tony Butler. 
  4. Chief Constable Francis Wilkinson  had been due to face the two-week disciplinary tribunal at the Hill Residential Centre in Abergavenny, beginning on Monday. 
  5. He said: "I have always strongly denied the allegations but have also said that, even if proved, they could not justify dismissal.

The Crown Prosecution Service had ruled out criminal charges.

2 police officers jailed for 15 months - April 17 1999

PC Mark Witcher, 30, and PC Andrew Lang, 31, have each received a 15 month jail sentence after they  admitted having sex with a mother-of-three at her home after she had been the victim of an assault on a night out. 

The two policemen were jailed for having sex while on duty were revealed to be "sexual predators" with a catalogue of "inappropriate" behaviour. They had sex with a drunken woman they had been called to help

The jury failed to reach verdicts on two counts of rape and indecent assault after the prosecution alleged that the then 23-year-old had not consented to sex and claimed the officers took it in turns to rape and indecently assault her while her three children and a male baby-sitter were asleep upstairs.

Surrey's assistant chief constable, Mark Rowley, said after the sentencing that investigations into the incident had revealed that it was not a "one-off act". 

  • In one previous incident involving Witcher,  two drunk teenage girls were handcuffed together in the back of a police car. 
  • The two young women, Witcher and a fellow officer all kissed each other and Witcher touched one of the teenagers intimately.

Perverting the course of justice -  False accident report - Counterfeiting - 17 police officers

2 Warders jailed for planting drugs on inmate. - 10 August, 2004

David Allen 44, of East Kilbride, a unit supervisor at Kilmarnock Prison, was jailed for two years for attempting to pervert the course of justice.

Two prison officers from Scotland's only private jail have been  sentenced for planting heroin on an inmate.

John Robertson, 26, of Auchinleck, Ayrshire a probationary warder received 300 hours community service for helping to plant the drugs. The court heard how Robertson, who had been in his job for only a short period, initially refused to do so but capitulated under pressure from his boss for fear of losing his job. 

Pc jailed for French fine scam - 14 March 2007

PC Mark Cuthbertson a policeman for 30 years tried to dodge a speeding fine by claiming a Frenchman was driving his vehicle has been jailed for nine months.

PC Mark Cuthbertson, 49, of The Plain, Brailsford, Derbyshire, thought the speeding offence would be ignored if a foreign national was driving. He was clocked at 38mph in a 30mph zone near his home.

Cuthbertson was found guilty of perverting the course of justice in a trial at Leicester Crown Court.

The vehicle belonged to the taxi firm Cuthbertson had set up in preparation for his retirement.

Sentencing him, Judge Philip Head said: "This is a tragedy. It's a tragedy for the police force for which you had served for 30 years and a tragedy for the public, which expects the highest standards from its police officers."

In interviews after his arrest, Cuthbertson told police a Frenchman called Jean-Pierre Renard had taken the vehicle but this was a lie, the man never existed.

Trainee Pc jailed for five years for helping murderer flee the country - 27 January 2006

A former trainee policewoman has been  jailed for five years after being found guilty of helping her lover flee the country after a gangland murder.

WPC Rupinder Gill, 27, of Hounslow, west London, helped 29-year-old Mohammed Omar Akbar flee to Malaga after the "execution" of Daniel Higgins. Akbar, of Slough, Berkshire was jailed for life for being part of a gang which tortured and killed Mr Higgins.

Conspiracy to pervert the course of justice - 26 September 2000

Three Greater Manchester Police officers have been required to resign after being found guilty of discipline charges of abuse of authority and falsehood or prevarication at a disciplinary hearing.

The charges relate to an incident outside the Whitefield Metrolink on 31st October 1998. A man, 31yo witnessed an incident involving police and offered to be a witness. The police then followed the witness to his home address, where he was falsely arrested.

The remaining two charges result from   officers submitting statements containing fabricated evidence  and neglecting to attend the complainant's trial at Bury Magistrate's Court in February 1999. The case against the complainant was dismissed.

NO Names of the police officers given

Perverting the course of justice - Drink or Drugs charges -  Assault - Arson - False insurance claim - 23 August 1999

PC James Fraser has been found guilty of:-

  1. Assaulting David Freer, 39, and trying to pervert the course of justice by submitting false witness statements about him in December 1996.

  2. Assaulting Callum MacAskill, 33, a slater from Inverness, with his police issue baton in the town in December 1996. 

  3. Also making up statements in the names of other officers, a court has been told. 

  4. Sergeant Lewis Patience said the statement in his name was not written by him. 

  5. PC Andrew Stephens, 34, also told the court that a statement in his name was inaccurate.  

Giving evidence at Fraser's trial at Inverness Sheriff Court  Sergeant Lewis Patience, said he could see no reason why  PC Fraser had arrested Mr Freer. 

Trial of Mr Freer collapsed

The CPS  as usual had tried to continue with the false conviction of an innocent man

  1. The reports specified that a man [Mr Freer] arrested for a breach of the peace had made threats against the police and used foul language towards them.
  2. Sgt Patience, 54, and PC Stephens said this was not their memory of the event three years ago. 
  3. Mr Freer was sent for trial on charges of breach of the peace and resisting arrest.
  4. But the trial of Mr Freer did not go ahead because of the evidence from Sgt Patience, 54, and PC Stephens 

PC James Fraser - 4 more offences

Had earlier admitted a series of charges relating to traffic offences and insurance fraud while on suspension from the force. 

  1. He pleaded guilty to driving under the influence of drink or drugs . 
  2. Driving without insurance and being involved in an accident in April this year. 
  3. He also admitted abandoning his car, and setting it on fire and then making a false insurance claim. 
  4. PC Fraser claimed it had been stolen with intent to pervert the course of justice.

No more information is available

Perverting the course of justice - Drink drive officer lied after crash - 16 March, 2000

PC Steffan Gdula tried to lie his way out of a drink-driving charge.  PC Gdula, from Tenby admitted attempting to pervert the course of justice and was jailed for two months.

The constable crashed his car into a roundabout after drinking 12 pints of strong Stella lager at a friend's leaving party.  
  • Then he rang his own station and claimed his Rover Coupe had been stolen.  
  • But two colleagues had spotted him walking away from the scene of the accident at Cross Hands 40 minutes earlier. 
  • Swansea Crown Court heard that Gdula, aged 28 stuck to his story through two police interviews before finally breaking down and confessing. 
  • Gdula, from Tenby admitted attempting to pervert the course of justice and was jailed for two months.
PC jailed for two years - 31 January 2007

PC Gary Hansford a policeman for 16 years has been jailed for two years after lying to a judge to save his lover from a prison sentence.

Gary Hansford 42yo was found guilty of committing acts tending or intending to pervert the course of justice.

The Humberside officer, of Thrunscoe Road, Cleethorpes, near Grimsby, lied to protect his drug-dealing lover Carrie-Ann Smith, who has since died. Hansford altered his statements about her and lied in court, enabling her to avoid a conviction for supplying class A drugs and instead she was charged with the lesser crime of possession.

Detective admits internet scam - Counterfeit of CD Discs - 9 June, 2003

Thomas Alexander Hill Detective Constable  could be sacked after he admitted copying and selling counterfeit music CD's, DVD's and computer games he escaped a prison sentence after he pleaded guilty to six offences under the trademark and copyright acts.

Fining him £,500 with £985 costs, chair of the bench Joanne Davies told Hill: "As a serving police officer you should have known better."

Pc jailed for harassment claim - 18 February 2005

WPC Gina Iaquaniello 32, of Ayelands, New Ash Green, Kent was found guilty of perverting the course of justice last December at Croydon Crown Court.

She made up a series of incidents to make it look as if she was being harassed by a colleague has been jailed for two-and-a-half years. 

Det Supt Paul Rickett said Iaquaniello, stationed at Bexleyheath, cut her own brake pipes. The car ended up in a ditch and it sparked a murder bid inquiry, he said.

WPC Gina Iaquaniello an officer for 12 years staged three burglaries at her home, later returning the "stolen" property to herself via internal police mail, accompanied by threatening letters, said Mr Rickett.

She was arrested in March 2003 when she was caught by police scratching the word "die" into the paintwork of her car.

14 July, 2005 - Appeal against conviction Appeal Court judges ruled her sentence should be cut to a year after hearing she had been attacked while in jail. The Court of Appeal heard how Iaquaniello had suffered two broken arms and been stabbed by fellow inmates at both the prisons she had been at.

However, they dismissed her appeal against her conviction.

PC Gerrard Maguire arrested an innocent man in order to inflate his record of arrests

PC Maguire claimed the man had elbowed him in the head but video evidence proved that this did
not take place.

Maguire who is known for reckless acts of violence against the public has repeatedly approached
local newspapers with public relations stories about himself in order to win favor with the board
of adjudicators who nominate officers for awards in the community.

The victim commented:

  • These officers learn their trade lying in the Magistrates court early in their careers. 
  • They get away with it with magistrates court and this teaches them that their uniform is a useful tool in perpetrating lies and perjury.
  • Maguire , in my mind, is a braggart and a little show off who thinks he is God's gift to policing.
  • We see no such antics from other officers who do good work in the community in Carlisle.
  • Maguire is a disgrace. He goes for fame over social justice all the time.
  • He is infamous in Carlilse and is broadly despised.
    I believe that all the hate he is building up against him in Carlisle will one day come back to
    haunt him."

Police officer Andy Bray a colleague of Maguire's also perjured himself  by supporting Maguire's elbow allegation. 

(So if it is proved they have lied in a court why are they not charged with 'Perjury')

PC jailed for lying in cover-up - 22 December 2005

PC Andrew Reid, 45, helped Sally Gent, 39, avoid having a police record after she was caught stealing from a supermarket, Norwich Crown Court heard.

PC Andrew Reid,  of Enfield, had pleaded guilty to perverting the course of justice at an earlier hearing. He was sentenced to four months..

Gent, of Spixworth, near Norwich, was also sentenced to two months in prison.

The court heard Reid went to Safeway in Cromer in August last year after his lover was caught stealing items worth more than £100. He then carried out a "sham" interview with Gent, and allowed her to give false details so she would escape having a police record. 

Perverting the course of justice - 27 February, 2003

PC Steven Rigler - January 2001

He had earlier been cleared of indecently assaulting a teenage girl in the back of his patrol car in. The married police constable told Bournemouth Crown Court that the 17-year-old had consented to performing the sex act in return for a lift home late at night.

27 February, 2003 - Again a girl was sexually assaulted in his police car, but this time he didn't get away with it.

PC Steven Rigler a Dorset police officer has been jailed for 18 months for perverting the course of justice he was dismissed from his duties in October 2002.

Rigler of Christchurch was convicted of perverting the course of justice - after admitting to faking a blackmail note from the teenager to discredit her allegations.

  • He vandalized his own car and left a funeral director's notice on it. 
  • He pleaded guilty to the charge on an earlier occasion. 
  • Rigler's forgery was discovered when forensic testing revealed his saliva was on the forgery note - at which point he admitted he had created it.

During sentencing, Judge Samuel Wiggs said: 

  • "Steven Rigler, you are a disgrace to the police force..
  • You involved yourself in sexual conduct with a young girl in a police car while on duty. 
  • Once you were under investigation you perverted the course of justice or attempted to do so.
Conspiracy to pervert the course of justice - 13 August, 2004

Guilty of perjury 

But still not guilty of downloading child pornographic photographs as he was found not guilty by telling a pack of lies. So he still gets off lightly.

Det Con Brian Stevens, 43 gave a false alibi when he was accused of downloading child porn on the internet.
Jailed at the Old Bailey for eight months.

Det Con Brian Stevens lied to police by saying he was with CPS Crown Prosecution Service case worker Louise Austin, 32, in Cambridgeshire when the images were taken and that he did not have his computer with him. 

9 June 2002 The police officer had told police he was 100 miles away from his laptop when the images were put on his laptop on 9 June 2002. He said he and Louise Austin, a 32-year-old case officer for the (CPS) Crown Prosecution Service, was at her Cambridgeshire home - a two-hour drive from Goring-on-Thames. 

But telecommunications expert David Bristowe said that Mr Stevens' mobile phone had registered itself as in use with cell sites around Goring-on-Thames eight times on 8 June and once on 9 June. "There is no chance whatsoever that phone was in the Cambridgeshire area," he told the court

Louise Austin, of the CPS gave a statement to police supporting the alibi. She was jailed for six months, suspended for two years for the same offence.

One more judge that believes anything a policeman says in court 
(I have never understood how the Judge and courts excepted (in the first trial) that Brian Stevens can say someone else downloaded pornographic images to his computer.
When someone else would also need his credit card details to do so. Because it was his credit card details that were passed on to the English police from the American authorities.)

But some judges who live ... in 'never never land' ... believe all police can do no wrong.

Counterfeit of CD Discs

John Stewart an ex police superintendent  was found guilty on two counts of conspiracy of producing thousands of counterfeit compact discs. The stall was run by his son Karl Stewart, 30, and Gurdeep Singh Sandy, 24, both of whom pleaded guilty to the charges. 
At the height of the operation, the trio were selling an average of 600 to 700 counterfeit CDs at a profit of £2,000.

John Stewart former superintendent retired from West Yorkshire Police in August 1998 (No doubt on a full pension?)

Drugs - Conspiracy to pervert the course of justice

Detective Constable Austin Warnes had played a key role in a plot

  • to assist Simon James in winning custody of his young son. James had hired private detective Jonathan Rees from the Law and Commercial agency in south London 

  • to plant a significant quantity of cocaine in a car belonging to his estranged wife, Kim, a former model

  • The plan was to get her sent to prison, leaving the child in the father's sole care.

Det Con Austin Warnes, a long-time cocaine addict  who moonlighted for Law and Commercial, had agreed to assist the plot by passing false information to local police that Kim James was involved in high-level cocaine dealing.

Det Con Austin Warnes fed his own drug habit by regularly stealing drugs during raids. 
Warnes also assisted Courtney and dozens of other professional criminals in the south London area to avoid capture and evade charges by providing them with information about police investigations. No more information is available

Perjury - 30 May, 2003

PC Christopher Watkins 40 convicted of lying on oath has been told by a judge that he has disgraced himself and the force will now be sacked by Gwent Police.
Watkins was given a  six-month suspended sentence and told to pay £1,000 costs at Cardiff Crown Court.

Watkins, of Abergavenny, south Wales, was found guilty at an earlier hearing of telling a "deliberate lie" during the trial of a man for of a public order offence.

 

False police accident report - Conspiracy to pervert the course of justice and convict innocent man

PC Andrew Whitworth Tried to frame a driver for an accident which never took place has been jailed for two years. The Old Bailey heard that after shouting "very British obscenities" at the driver.
PC Andrew Whitworth  submitted an entirely bogus police accident report.

It resulted in Thomas Walsh, from Hemel Hempstead in Hertfordshire, being summoned for driving without due care and attention and failing to report an accident.

Sally-Ann Hales, prosecuting, said Thomas Walsh left space to allow PC Andrew Whitworth in, but the officer chose to drive alongside, trying to force Mr Walsh's car into the kerb, while waving his fists and shouting "get a life and bastard - that sort of thing".

Mr Walsh drove on, but when traffic ground to a halt, PC Andrew Whitworth got out of his car and started banging on the Cavalier's roof "shouting what might be described as very British obscenities". "Mr Walsh thought he was dealing with a madman and as soon as the traffic started, he drove off.

"That should have been an end of the incident - an unpleasant example of road rage," said Ms Hales. "But unfortunately, Whitworth did not leave it there. When he went on duty the following day, PC Andrew Whitworth falsely reported Mr Walsh's vehicle being involved in a collision with a Dutch-registered Sierra driven by a Frenchman."

PC Whitworth claimed the door and wing mirror had been damaged when Mr Walsh collided with the car, stating that after the incident Mr Walsh "stuck two fingers up and drove off."

The allegations against Mr Walsh were not proceeded with - but could have been, said Ms Hales.

(One more innocent man falsely accused could have been jailed by the word of a police thug)

Racist Behaviour - 8 Police Officers

Racial abuse - 21 June, 2000

PC Peter Ferguson 42 , was fined £500 with £300 costs after being found guilty of using threatening or insulting words or behaviour which were racially aggravated to PC Sonia Campbell, 36. aunt of supermodel Naomi Campbell. 

Ferguson pushed his nose down and made racial insults to Ms Campbell at a charity police quiz night in November, Tower Bridge Magistrates Court heard. 
Tracey Jackson, the wife of a police officer, gave evidence to the court backing PC Campbell's complaint. 

Widespread racial discrimination in the CPS.

26th July 2001David Calvert-Smith the DPP Director of Public Prosecutions, said he accepted charges that the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) is "institutionally racist".
Mr Calvert-Smith the was speaking after the publication on Thursday of two reports which highlighted widespread racial discrimination in the CPS.

Maria Bamieh Senior CPS lawyer 
2003 The (CPS) Crown prosecution service has paid her more than £250,000 to settle a claim for race and sex discrimination and victimization by one of the CPS senior lawyers.

Police no charges for being racist 

  • The police and the CPS do not charge police officers for being racist 
  • Police arrest Mark Daly the person who found evidence that up to 9 police officers on training are racist.

PC will not face a criminal prosecution - 8 March, 2004

PC Rob Pulling was on a police training course when the BBC documentary entitled The Secret Policeman, recorded him making a string of racist comments and saying Hitler had the "right ideas" and wearing a mock Ku Klux Klan hood.

Mr Pulling was described as "a disgrace" by his own force after the documentary, secretly filmed by BBC journalist Mark Daly, showed him acting in an overtly racist manner.

He was heard criticizing the only Asian recruit on the training course and when asked during the filming if he was capable of killing an Asian man he replied: "I've got it in me... it's a hatred thing."

No charges against a further nine officers recorded on the BBC documentary

The Crown Prosecution Service said that no charges would be brought against a total of nine officers who resigned as a result of the programme but none charged with any criminal offences.

The infamous police statement of "insufficient evidence" from Greater Manchester Police on Monday said 

  • None of the nine officers who resigned were to face criminal charges because of "insufficient evidence" against them. 
  • In English law racist comments are unlawful but once again the police are protected by the police and the CPS 
This is why I say the police employ a high percentage of thugs as police officers.
Many police 'Commit  perjury to convict innocent people.' 		 No police officers convicted for a 'Death' in custody' 

Or charged with any criminal offence when 'Innocent people are convicted and later released' 

Police drug dealers - So many police are convicted for supplying drugs - anyone may wonder if the police are the main drugs suppliers. 

This page shows just a few ... convictions of over 80 police officers, 18 jailed for drug offences. 

This is British justice
Many police officers resign with a full pension to escape being charged.

Police chief's daughter attacked officers

This really makes me wonder ......  If the police  are such morally upstanding folk, why don't they raise their children to be law abiding citizens and obey the law?
Or does a daughter merely follow the example of her father Chief Constable Paul Whitehouse  

  • Who has so much contempt for people killed by police 

  • that he, promotes police officers involved in the shooting of an innocent man James Ashley.

Frances Whitehouse, daughter of Sussex Chief Constable Paul Whitehouse, kicked one officer in the head and pushed and swore at the other as they stepped in to stop a fight in Brighton.

Frances Whitehouse 18yo of Hove, East Sussex, was found guilty of assault  at Brighton magistrates court on Thursday. She had denied the charges.

Police officer kicked in the head

On the way to the police station, Frances Whitehouse kicked Pc Spalding in the head through the gap between the police car's two front seats. 

He suffered bruising to the head and neck, and later found that his neck had been put out of joint.

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