Earlier today, at the Central Criminal Court, Metropolitan Police
Superintendent Robyn Williams was convicted of possessing an indecent image of a child after being accused of having ‘a moving image file of Category A severity’; Category A is the most serious level of child abuse images.
Superintendent Robyn Williams also faced a charge of corrupt or improper exercise of police powers in failing to report the distribution of an image, but was cleared of this.
In February 2018,
Superintendent Robyn Williams was one of 17 people who was sent the video via WhatsApp on her phone by her sister,
Jennifer Hodge, who, in turn had been sent the material by her (Hodge's) partner,
Dido Massivi.
Hodge was convicted of distributing an indecent image while
Massivi was convicted of distributing an indecent photograph of a child and possession of extreme pornography (believed to involve an act of bestiality).
All three will be sentenced next week.
Metropolitan Police Superintendent Robyn Williams is a former general secretary and founder member of the National Black Police Association, and poster girl for the Metropolitan Police's policing of the Notting Hill Carnival.