Filth by name. . .

[GarveyLives]

On 5 January 2024, a serving officer with the Metropolitan Police, PC Andrej Sagaidak, who was working in his probation period and is attached to the local policing team in south-east London, was charged with two counts of rape, one count of non-fatal strangulation and one count of causing actual bodily harm.

PC Andrej Sagaidak appeared at Westminster Magistrates' Court today, where he was remanded in custody to appear at Snaresbrook Crown Court on 2 February 2024.

Detective Chief Superintendent Trevor Lawry, responsible for policing in Bexley, Greenwich and Lewisham:

"This is a deeply concerning allegation and I know it will cause significant concern.

We took immediate action when we received the report and the officer was suspended from duty following his arrest on Thursday (4 January 2024).

An investigation was launched after we received a report that a man had been raped by another man at a residential property in Islington on Monday, 1 January.

The officer was off-duty at the time of the alleged offence ..."

 

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On 5 January 2024, a serving officer with the Metropolitan Police, PC Andrej Sagaidak, who was working in his probation period and is attached to the local policing team in south-east London, was charged with two counts of rape, one count of non-fatal strangulation and one count of causing actual bodily harm.

PC Andrej Sagaidak appeared at Westminster Magistrates' Court today, where he was remanded in custody to appear at Snaresbrook Crown Court on 2 February 2024.

Detective Chief Superintendent Trevor Lawry, responsible for policing in Bexley, Greenwich and Lewisham:

"This is a deeply concerning allegation and I know it will cause significant concern.

We took immediate action when we received the report and the officer was suspended from duty following his arrest on Thursday (4 January 2024).

An investigation was launched after we received a report that a man had been raped by another man at a residential property in Islington on Monday, 1 January.

The officer was off-duty at the time of the alleged offence ..."

Beat me to it GarveyLives similar reporting in the Guardian.

There's that phrase, non fatal strangulation again...

 

[Lurdan]

There's that phrase, non fatal strangulation again...

Not just a phrase though, as of June 2022 it's the name of a specific criminal offence.

 

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There's this one I forgot to post yesterday - Clare's Law was passed to enable people to ask if their partner or spouse has a violent background, and apparently some forces see compliance with this legislation as 'optional'

Revealed: police refusing requests for background checks on violent partners

Observer analysis reveals forces in England and Wales are leaving people at risk by rejecting Clare’s law checks on suspected abusers

www.theguardian.com

ETA: at least three forces have already been warned His Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary for their behaviour, Merseyside, Thames Valley and Durham.

 

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Not just a phrase though, as of June 2022 it's the name of a specific criminal offence.

Of course, thanks for the reminder.

 

[GarveyLives]

Former West Yorkshire Police officer, Detective Inspector Claudine Binns has been charged with sexual assault by penetration. The charge relates to an alleged offence while off-duty.

At the time of arrest in May 2022, former Detective Inspector Claudine Binns was deployed as a detective inspector within West Yorkshire Police's Bradford District and was suspended from duty. She has since retired from West Yorkshire Police.

Former Detective Inspector Claudine Binns was granted unconditional bail by Bradford and Keighley Magistrates' Court earlier today until her next court appearance at Bradford Crown Court on 5 February 2024.

No explanation has yet been given by West Yorkshire Police concerning the delay between arrest and charge. It is understood that former Detective Inspector Claudine Binns is from a policing family, her father being a retired divisional commander at the rank of chief superintendent.

 

[DaveCinzano]

Former West Yorkshire Police officer, Detective Inspector Claudine Binns has been charged with sexual assault by penetration. The charge relates to an alleged offence while off-duty.

At the time of arrest in May 2022, former Detective Inspector Claudine Binns was deployed as a detective inspector within West Yorkshire Police's Bradford District and was suspended from duty. She has since retired from West Yorkshire Police.

Former Detective Inspector Claudine Binns was granted unconditional bail by Bradford and Keighley Magistrates' Court earlier today until her next court appearance at Bradford Crown Court on 5 February 2024.

No explanation has yet been given by West Yorkshire Police concerning the delay between arrest and charge. It is understood that former Detective Inspector Claudine Binns is from a policing family, her father being a retired divisional commander at the rank of chief superintendent.

It's all go in West Yorks at the moment:

...two serving officers – PC Simon Clarke, 52, and PC Gary Cavanagh, 59 – appeared at Bradford Magistrates Court this morning (Monday)...

PC Clarke, who works in the Leeds District, was charged with two counts of sexual assault. It is alleged that he committed the offences while on duty, against one victim.

PC Cavanagh, who also works in Leeds, has been charged with one count of a sexual assault at a Leeds city centre bar. The charge relates to an off-duty offence. Both police officers have been suspended from duty.

The pair were two of four officers who appeared before Bradford Magistrates Court today charged with sexual assault.

Claudine Binns, 49, was charged with sexual assault by penetration. The charge relates to an off-duty offence.

She was working as a detective inspector in the Bradford district at the time of her arrest in May 2022 and was suspended from duty. She has since retired from West Yorkshire Police.

Lee Meadows, 44, a former officer from North Yorkshire Police who has now retired, is accused of intentionally touching a woman in a sexual nature without her consent.

Both their cases were deemed too serious to be heard by Magistrates and were sent to Bradford Crown Court on February 5.

All four officers were granted bail.

PC Simon Clarke (left) and PC Gary Cavanagh have been charged with sexual assault. Photos: SWNS

Claudine Binns (left) and Lee Meadows also appeared in court charged with sexual offences. Photos: SWNS

 

[Orang Utan]

Wish I could have retired at age 44 and I haven’t even done a sex crime.

 

[GarveyLives]

A serving City of London Police officer has been charged with two counts of rape and one count of causing Actual Bodily Harm.

PC Daniel Condon of Barnet, north London, appeared at Guildford Crown Court on 5 January 2024 and a trial date has been set for 3 February 2025, nearly three years after the alleged offences. The charges relate to allegations made against PC Daniel Condon while he was off duty in Staines-upon-Thames on 14 May 2022.

PC Daniel Condon was immediately suspended following his arrest.

 

[GarveyLives]

A former Essex Police officer charged with three offences following an internal investigation is due to appear at Chelmsford Magistrates’ Court tomorrow.

Former PC Russell Hinkins of Haverhill, Suffolk was initially arrested in August 2022, and has been charged with misconduct in a public office, securing unauthorised access to material and disclosing information without consent.

Former PC Russell Hinkins previously made the headlines in 2018, when it came to light that he had sent nude pictures of himself to women on a dating site, Plenty of Fish, and even promised he would bring his handcuffs when agreeing to meet a stranger for sex, and also took photos of himself in his uniform and in his police vehicle.

At the time, Essex Police said: “Officers are expected to be extremely careful in their use of social media.”

Former PC Russell Hinkins said: “I deeply regret this situation and any embarrassment I may have caused Essex Police.”

 

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Wish I could have retired at age 44 and I haven’t even done a sex crime.

Same. No chance of me retiring before I'm 70 I reckon.

 

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It's good to see cases progressing despite officers retiring/resigning prior to the case being prosecuted. Previously it felt like if an officer resigned or retired the case would vanish.

 

[GarveyLives]

Rebecca Kalam: Officer 'vindicated' after sex discrimination win

A former West Midlands police firearms officer has now been awarded £820,720 after winning a sex discrimination case against West Midlands Police.

Rebecca Kalam was awarded £30,000 at an employment tribunal in November 2023, but has now had a full award for loss of earnings and her pension. West Midlands Police also faces a substantial bill in legal costs, but has refused to disclose how much money was spent fighting the case:

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Good. I bet their legal bill is hundreds of thousands of pounds too, no wonder they're being cagey about the exact amount spent.

 

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PC under investigation for driving offences after pedestrian Trevor Bartlett is killed whilst crossing the road.

Trevor Bartlett: Criminal probe for PC involved in fatal crash

The officer was driving a police van that hit and killed 80-year-old Trevor Bartlett.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

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There's this one I forgot to post yesterday - Clare's Law was passed to enable people to ask if their partner or spouse has a violent background, and apparently some forces see compliance with this legislation as 'optional'

Revealed: police refusing requests for background checks on violent partners

Observer analysis reveals forces in England and Wales are leaving people at risk by rejecting Clare’s law checks on suspected abusers

www.theguardian.com

ETA: at least three forces have already been warned His Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary for their behaviour, Merseyside, Thames Valley and Durham.

Add Wiltshire to the list - their failure t comply with Clare's Law has harmed at least two women

Women harmed after Wiltshire police failed to disclose partners’ violent pasts

Force finds at least two women were harmed after failings in its response to their inquiries under Clare’s law

www.theguardian.com

25 individual failures so far identified.

 

[GarveyLives]

In a break from the serial abuses committed by officers which they appear to be being held to account for, here's the Met not exactly covering themselves in glory:

She'd paid

Indeed so. You'd think they could've ascertained that without arresting her and causing distress to both her and her son.

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A serving Metropolitan Police officer has now been charged with assault after an investigation into the arrest of a woman on suspicion of evading a bus fare in south London.

PC Perry Lathwood, who is attached to the Metropolitan Police’s Road Traffic Policing Command, will appear at Westminster Magistrates’ Court on 14 February 2024 charged with assault by beating in relation to bruising injuries caused to the woman’s arm during the incident on 21 July 2023 in Whitehorse Road, Croydon, in scenes alarmingly reminiscent of the 1977 classic US TV mini-series "Roots".

The charge follows an investigation by the Independent Office for Police Conduct ("IOPC") which concluded in December 2023.

The woman was later de-arrested when it was confirmed that she had paid the fare.

The IOPC launched an investigation in August 2023 shortly after footage of the incident was widely circulated online.

Footage of the incident showed the woman being held by two male officers, while her child could be heard crying in the background.

Police said she had refused to show her ticket to inspectors, a community support officer and constables and "continued to try to walk away".

One can only speculate what might have happened to the woman concerned if members of the public had not been on hand to capture the incident on film.

 

[SpookyFrank]

Wish I could have retired at age 44 and I haven’t even done a sex crime.

Most filths get ten years on indefinite sick leave before retirement as well. Add in the five years' gardening leave while they're waiting for the IOPC to figure out if sending pictures of your dick to a murder victim's widow counts as misconduct or not and you start to see why you're about as likely to see a filth out and about doing something useful as you are to see a goose that shits gold.

 

[GarveyLives]

A police officer from Preston, Lancashire has pleaded guilty to the attempted murder of a woman.

James Riley, 28, admitted trying to kill Ellie Moxham on 10 November 2022.

Riley, an officer with Lancashire Constabulary had previously denied the charge.



He'll be sentenced on the 12th of January.

Lancashire Police officer admits attempted murder of woman

Extraordinary that a serving police officer attempting to murder a woman does not make national headlines:

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Lancashire Constabulary Deputy Chief Constable Sacha Hatchett said:

“People will quite rightly be shocked and appalled to hear the detail of (former PC) James Riley’s crime. It is utterly abhorrent that a police officer should act in this way. (Former PC James) Riley’s behaviour clearly fell very far short of what we demand of our officers and staff, both on and off duty ...

“(Former PC James) Riley was immediately suspended from duty and our Professional Standards Department immediately launched an investigation into his conduct, which ran alongside the criminal investigation conducted by Greater Manchester Police.

“The investigation by our Professional Standards Department, assisted by Greater Manchester Police, led to an accelerated misconduct hearing which took place on 30 January 2023 where (PC) James Riley was dismissed from the force without notice.

“(PC James Riley was added to the College of Policing barred list, which means he will no longer be eligible to be employed or appointed into policing."

Yesterday, former PC James Riley of of Jepps Avenue, Barton, Lancashire was sentenced to 16 years' imprisonment at Manchester Crown Court for attempted murder after pleading guilty to the offence.

Former PC James Riley strangled his girlfriend, Ellie Moxham, at a Premier Inn for around two minutes before leaving her for dead in the hotel room the pair were sharing after flying into a jealous rage. She had hoped to end the relationship with the Lancashire Police officer, whose "aggression and jealousy" had marred their years together.

After strangling her for two minutes, former PC James Riley placed a plastic bag over her head because he "could not stand to look at her", before ringing 999 at 11.15 p.m., and then his parents to "say goodbye".

Greater Manchester Police initially responded to a call of a concern from former PC James Riley's mother for the welfare of Ellie Moxham and she was found by emergency services in a life-threatening condition and was later transferred to hospital in an induced coma.

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Former PC James Riley, who was not on duty at the time, fled the scene trying to evade capture using several different types of transport to hide his tracks and direction of travel. This was done initially done by exiting the hotel in his car before crashing it nearby. Former PC James Riley then ran from the scene and attempted to get on a bus, taxi and hitchhike back home to Lancashire.

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Ellie Moxham's victim impact statement described how former PC James Riley's 'coercive behaviour' and the 'traumatic' assault has left her struggling with anxiety, night terrors, headaches, problems trusting others, and more.

Judge Patrick Field KC said during sentencing that it was 'clear' that former PC James Riley 'gripped her throat and strangled her with such force over a significant period that her brain was starved of oxygen'.

This caused her to lose consciousness, he said, and to suffer profound injuries which has led to continuing cognitive difficulties.

The brain injury had left her with a 'cognitive fatigue which affects me daily', she recalled - having to take three naps a day, falling behind with her doctorate and having difficulties with her memory.

She told the court: 'I have had to seek medical help to deal with the anxiety and process what has happened as it has started to impact my daily life.

'Since the assault, I cannot focus on my work for long, I find I can't remember things that previously I would have been able to recall easily, I get frequent headaches that can sometimes only be helped by taking 3 naps a day, and I get anxious.'

"Lancashire Constabulary is committed to tackling all forms of domestic abuse, safeguarding victims, and holding perpetrators of domestic abuse to account for their behaviour and crimes. We will not tolerate domestic abuse offending by any of our officers or staff, and will hold them to account both criminally and through our internal misconduct processes.

"We hope that the prompt action taken by our Professional Standards Department in dismissing this officer swiftly, prior to the conclusion of the criminal investigation, shows our commitment to tackling any allegations of this type against a serving police officer.

"We utterly condemn the actions of former officer James Riley, and our thoughts are with the victim and those affected by this extremely serious and concerning crime."

 

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Greater Manchester Police exhibiting callous and disturbing behaviour during the Rochdale grooming ring investigation. TW: abuse of minors, abortion

Police took aborted foetus without telling Rochdale grooming victim, review finds

Failing among those detailed in highly critical report into how GMP and other agencies responded to child sexual exploitation

www.theguardian.com

 

[GarveyLives]

Having claimed during his trial that the sexual assualt he was accused of committing on a vulnerable woman was a ‘physically impossible act’, PC Matthew Longmate who had sexual contact with a drunk woman in a patrol car has now been found guilty by a jury at Southwark Crown Court of one count of misconduct in public office.

(Source: Derbyshire Police)​

Co-defendant, the Late PC Daniel Nash pleaded guilty to 14 counts of misconduct in public office, relating to sexual conduct with a number of women over several years. The Late PC Daniel Nash was sentenced in August 2023 when, due to ill-health he received a two-year suspended sentence. The Late PC Daniel Nash died of cancer in September 2023.

(Source: Derbyshire Police)​

PC Matthew Longmate, who had more than 20 years of policing experience, and who has been suspended from duty since November 2021, was granted bail until he is sentenced on 15 January 2024.

Derbyshire Constabulary has agreed that PC Matthew Longmate also has a case to answer for gross misconduct for potentially breaching police standards of professional behaviour.

Earlier today, former PC Matthew Longmate of Derbyshire Police, avoided an immediate term of imprisonment when he was sentenced to 12 months' imprisonment, suspended for 12 months at Southwark Crown Court, having been convicted of one charge of misconduct in a public office.

Former PC Matthew Longmate will have to complete 100 hours of unpaid work, which he will have 12 months to complete. He was also ordered to pay £3,500 in prosecution costs, and will have nine months to pay.

(Source: Derbyshire Police)​

Having bailed former PC Matthew Longmate following his trial and conviction so he could spend Christmas with his family, Judge Christopher Hehir told former PC Matthew Longmate that he had decided to be “very lenient” and would not be sending him to prison.

"He is someone who had a stellar career and now has nothing. He could be usefully deployed and punished in the community."

Derbyshire police officer guilty over sex act avoids jail

 

[GarveyLives]

Yesterday Devon and Cornwall PC Kane Haywood appeared at Bristol Crown Court charged with two counts of rape of a woman aged 16 years or over and one count of sexual assault by penetration. Released on conditional bail until his trial, set for January next year. Currently suspended.

Serving Devon and Cornwall Police Officer PC Kane Haywood has been found guilty of sexually assaulting a woman by penetration when he was off duty. PC Kane Haywood was found not guilty of two counts of rape in relation to the same incident which took place in Exeter in March 2021.

PC Kane Haywood was released on bail and is due to be sentenced on 24 January 2024.

(Source: Jonathan Brady/PA)​

It was alleged Viagra-fuelled PC Kane Haywood had ignored the woman's pleas to stop after the initial assault and went on to rape her. PC Kane Haywood had pleaded not guilty to all the charges, claiming all sexual conduct had been consensual and the woman had "thoroughly enjoyed" the sex.

Police officer sexually assaulted woman at Exeter flat

 

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Two more convictions linked to the evidence of Derek Ridgewell with the BTP have been overturned, albeit posthumously

Two men jailed on racist police officer’s evidence have convictions overturned

Convictions of Saliah Mehmet and Basil Peterkin linked to British Transport Police officer Derek Ridgewell posthumously quashed

www.theguardian.com

 

[GarveyLives]

Serving Metropolitan Police officer, Sergeant Leo Boateng, who is attached to their Central West Basic Command Unit, is due to appear at Westminster Magistrates Court later today charged with one count of rape.

The charge relates to an incident that is alleged to have taken place in November 2022 while Sergeant Leo Boateng officer was off-duty.

 

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Norfolk Police have self referred to the IOPC after it emerged that they did not respond to a 999 call to the house where 4 people were found dead just over an hour later the same day:

Norwich: Police failed to respond to 999 call from deaths house

Norfolk police says the call was made just over an hour before the bodies of four people were found.

www.bbc.co.uk

The BBC reports that this is the second time theyl force has referred itself to the IOPC in connection with this case, the first being in connection with a missing persons case linked to the same address on 14 December.

 

[tony.c]

 

[GarveyLives]

Someone is not happy with this thread?

"Metropolitan Police officers are being afforded “special status” by having their identities anonymised in misconduct hearings and criminal proceedings, lawyers and family members of alleged victims have said ..."

Metropolitan Police accused of giving police ‘special status’ with anonymity in misconduct cases

 

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Someone is not happy with this thread?



Metropolitan Police accused of giving police ‘special status’ with anonymity in misconduct cases

To be fair they do appear to be granting special status, although I appreciate that some aspects of policing need to maintain additional levels of confidentiality. However when someone is shot that may mean special status is lost.

 

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Not good

Officers disciplined as trawl of police records reveals misconduct

The National Police Chiefs' Council has completed a huge check of records from every force in the UK.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[GarveyLives]

Former PC Jordan Masterson of Townsend Avenue, Clubmoor, Liverpool, has gone on trial at Chester Crown Court accused of misconduct in a public office following an incident in the early hours of 28 December 2021, when, while on duty in Widnes as a police constable with Cheshire Police, he was called to a vulnerable woman’s home following a 999 emergency call, and within a short time of arriving at her home, he allegedly turned off his body worn camera and engaged in consensual sexual intercourse with the woman while her children were asleep in the house at the time.

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Former PC Jordan Masterson apparently accepts that he had sexual intercourse with the vulnerable woman, but clams that he had “no control over his actions”. His trial continues:

PC Jordan Masterson who had sex on duty was powerless - jury told