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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Henry Vaughan

Met Police officer ‘took Metallica tickets for his mother-in-law’s 60th birthday as bribe’

PA

A Metropolitan Police officer who took bribes from nightclub owners and security bosses has told a jury: “My work was always impartial.”

Ex-Sergeant Frank Partridge, 49, admits accepting gifts including a luxury family holiday to Morocco, Metallica tickets for his mother-in-law’s 60th birthday and a monogrammed made-to-measure suit while tasked with policing London’s West End nightlife between 2013 and 2015.

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