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Barney Davis

Met firearms officer who quit after testing positive for steroids is now banned from policing

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(Picture: PA Archive)

A firearms officer in the Metropolitan Police quit the force after steroids were detected in his bloodstream, a misconduct hearing heard.

PC Lee Ashby, one of the first armed officers to respond to the Westminster Terror attack in 2017, claimed that he had been given the pills at the gym by a friend and had no idea they contained steroids.

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