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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
National
Adrian Zorzut

Met Police officer created fake Instagram accounts to send unwanted sexual messages to women

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A Metropolitan Police officer created fake Instagram accounts to send unwanted, sexually motivated messages to a string of women including those he’d met at school and university, a misconduct panel has found.

PC Joss Astley sent unwanted messages to 11 women using fake accounts between 2014 and 2020 which amounted to stalking and harassment, according to a Met Police misconduct panel.

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