A Metropolitan Police officer advised colleagues he would identify his canine after Fred West or Ian Brady in a sequence of grim messages.
In the WhatsApp group named ‘Secret Squirrel Sh**’, former police sergeant Luke Thomas spoke warmly of Nazis and little one killers whereas asking for assist naming his canine.
‘I think Adolf might be a bit obvious,’ he wrote.
‘Fred and Ian after my two favourite child sex killers? Do you think Auschwitz could be a good name for him?’
In the identical WhatsApp group, he known as a rapist cop a ‘legend in my eyes’, and mentioned any non-binary individual was ‘an utter c**t’.
In response to the feedback, the panel heard Thomas acknowledged they have been inappropriate.
The former police officer was one in all eight serving and former Met officers from the South East Command Unit who used the group between May 2016 and June 2018.
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This included seven males and one girl, and a part of a Bexley-based safer neighbourhood workforce.
In the chat, they’d ceaselessly publish feedback that have been sexist, racist, homophobic, transphobic and ‘applauded sexual violence against women’.
Those who confronted a gross misconduct listening to at Empress State Building in Fulham, west London, yesterday alongside Thomas included: former performing PS Luke Allen, former PC Kelsey Buchan, former PC Carlo Francisco, former PC Lee South, former PC Darren Jenner, PC Glynn Rees, and Officer B, who has been granted anonymity.
On different events, Thomas repeatedly mocked Harvey Price, the son of Katie Price who’s disabled.
Ms Price, 44, was left ‘disgusted’ after studying of the ‘derogatory’ messages, together with images which were allegedly posted by Met Police officers on WhatsApp between 2016 and 2018.
Harvey, 20, is Ms Price’s eldest son and has Prader-Willi syndrome, a genetic situation leading to weight problems, and Septo-Optic Dysplasia, which impacts sight and the event of the mind.
When a girl colleague recognized as Officer A joined the unit, Sgt Thomas known as her ‘f***ing ugly’ and ‘dumb as f**k’.
Thomas additionally referred to Officer A as ‘it’, the panel heard.
Once he posted: ‘Another male police officer says he did once get away with rape on a weekend away in Butlin’s, so a legend in my eyes.’
All eight officers are topic to 3 allegations and are mentioned to have breached requirements {of professional} behaviour in relation to equality and variety, authority, respect and courtesy, difficult and reporting improper conduct and discreditable conduct.
Thomas, who was the best rating officer within the WhatsApp group, faces an extra allegation of failing to adequately supervise his workforce and legitimising the ‘derisory chat’ as workforce sergeant.
Three former officers – Thomas, Allen and South – admit gross misconduct for all allegations. Former officer Francisco admits gross misconduct for the primary allegation, and misconduct for the opposite two.
Serving officer Rees and former officer Buchan admit misconduct for all allegations.
Officer B denies the primary allegation and admits misconduct for the second and third allegation.
Former PC Jenner has not engaged with the misconduct listening to and the police have taken that to imply he doesn’t admit both misconduct nor gross misconduct.
All face prices over not reporting the feedback. If responsible of gross misconduct, they face a lifetime ban from policing.
The listening to continues.
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