Eight serving and former Metropolitan Police officers have been found guilty of “gross misconduct” over “discriminatory and offensive” messages they shared which included some which made fun of Katie Price’s disabled son Harvey.
The officers – seven men and one woman – were found to have sent sexist, racist, homophobic, transphobic and disablist comments in a WhatsApp group called “Secret Squirrel S**t” between May 17, 2016 and June 26, 2018.
Legal chairman Christopher McKay described gross misconduct as a “breach of the standards of professional behaviour that is so serious as to justify dismissal”, during the fifth day of the hearing at Palestra House in Southwark, central London, on Thursday.
