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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Ted Hennessey

Met inspector ‘in WhatsApp chat with sexist, racist and pornographic messages’

Inspector Charles Ehikioya arrives at a Metropolitan Police misconduct hearing at Palestra House (Lucy North/PA) - (PA Wire)

The Metropolitan Police’s Black Police Association head was in a WhatsApp chat where there were jokes about sex with a girl with Down’s syndrome and mockery of the late Duke of Edinburgh Prince Philip’s car crash, a misconduct hearing has been told.

Inspector Charles Ehikioya is accused of being in a chat with former Pc Carlo Francisco, who in 2023 was separately found guilty of gross misconduct over messages shared in a group with seven others, including some which made fun of Katie Price’s disabled son Harvey.

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