User:Blood Red Sandman/Criminals in uniform

I am collecting British police officers. Not any old polis, either - bizzies with recent criminal convictions. This is in preparation for a Wikinews investigation. I'm interested in whoever anyone can add to this list; the cases should be as fresh as possible and not older than a few years. I'm especially keen for officers from Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland; Englishire having the bulk of the population naturally gives it the bulk of, ah, indiscretions.


 * Ali Dizaei – Retrial granted.


 * Russell West – Constable for Essex. Exact offences guessable but unreported; sex chat with a 13-year-old girl over webcam. Resigned.


 * Stephen Mitchell – Constable with Northumbria who took rather too much interest in vulnerable women he met during his work. Convictions: Rape (x2), sexual assault (x3), misconduct in a public office (x6)


 * Martin Forshaw – PC from Manchester. Felt it would be a really good idea to hit his WPC fiancée. With a hammer. Then made a mess of staging a car crash coverup. Pled guilty shortly before trial. Convictions: murder.


 * Simon Hood – PC in Norfolk. Arranged to have his Audi 'stolen' when it became apparent the insurers would pay more than the second-hand market. Then boasted to his ex-girlfriend, who remained unimpressed. Presumably he'd already used 'I'm a policeman' and 'I drive an Audi'. Convictions: Conspiracy to commit insurance fraud.


 * Damien Myerscough – Tactical Aid officer with GMP who managed some off-duty aerobatics with his motorcycle; whilst speeding on his untaxed and unroadworthy machine he struck a row of cars and took off, striking two people and killing one. Was sincerely concerned with the immortal "I'm doomed. Was it my fault? That's it. That's my career gone. I'm a police officer." Cleared of the most serious charge. Convictions: Careless driving.


 * Victoria Thorne, of both Northumbria Polis and Notorious Girls. When she wasn't earning £100-per-hour as a hooker, she was busy using the police database to run searches on behalf of her pimp. Never prosecuted for earning her main income from prostituting herself, despite a good case to prove that charge. Pled guilty. Convictions: Misconduct in a public office.


 * Mark Johnson – PC, Nottinghamshire. Suffering from very poor mental health aggravated by his employers, forgot two police dogs remained in his car as he entered a station. The trial judge went justifiably ape at the force and its treatment of Johnson. Convictions: Causing unnecessary suffering to an animal (x2).


 * Craig Neil Macleod and Anja Mason – The couple from Wales, both PCs, were for years the subject of animal cruelty complaints. Evidence was lacking, so a neighbour began filming them attacking their two dogs. Kicking, attacking with a stick, throwing water and so forth was recorded. Four further charges were dropped by the RSPCA (who prosecute in England and Wales) over a lack of evidence. Guilty pleas. Convictions: causing unnecessary suffering to an animal (x2 for Macleod, x1 for Mason).


 * Jamie Slater, a married traffic officer who "wanted to be liked." Took mobile phone numbers from women in exchange for letting them get away with driving offences. Managed to shag two of them in his patrol car, one of whom was married, as well as two prostitutes. Eight women involved; one had to hide in the car during a pursuit. Guilty pleas. Convictions: Misconduct in a public office (x8).


 * Gary Tomlinson – out celebrating his (presumably lucrative) promotion to DCI. Had an argument about 90p in which he allegedly called a taxi driver a "lying Paki bastard". This couldn't be proved; a lesser charge was. Convictions: Using threatening words and behaviour.


 * Kenny Lewis – PC with Avon & Somerset who used police computers to track women he met on the job, harassing them for sex. Guilty pleas to some charges but went to trial on rape (x3) and wilful misconduct in a public office; acquitted. Resigned. Convictions: Misconduct in a public office (x8).


 * Mesut Karakas – PC with the Met. Was a bit short of cash, so he and some buddies hatched a plot (inspired by The Wire) to kidnap a banker. Some of the same buddies also teamed up with him to attack another guy with a baseball bat and Karakas used the force computer to access the incident report and get copies for his pals. Pled guilty. Convictions: Conspiracy to kidnap, misconduct in a public office, assault.


 * Peter Lightfoot – A GMP Special Constable who repeatedly punched a man he was arresting after he was ejected from a nightclub. Stood trial along with Sgt Stephen Russell and Pc Richard Kelsall who were cleared; they held the man down in the road. According to The Mirror, Lightfoot also lied under oath to secure convictions against the victim, later overturned. Convictions: Assault occasioning actual bodily harm, perjury.


 * Jeremy Colman – Okay, he's not a cop. However, his guilty plea is topical news and he may secure an honourary place in my piece. Auditor general for Wales, guilty pleas to making and possessing indecent images of children (14 charges total; 182 images) and failure to disclose the password to a USB memory stick when required to by police. Resigned.


 * Ray Clark – Constable for South Wales entered early guilty pleas after ludicrous plots to intimidate a pair of local businessmen. Was dismissed while in prison awaiting sentencing. Convictions: Conspiracy to blackmail (x2).


 * Justin Weaver – living in Swansea but working for the Met as a cop. Got his civilian-worker-at-Swansea girlfriend Amanda Griffin (herself a viable target of this investigation) to check up on drugs squad files on himself. Why? Because he was running a steroid supply business. Several associates also convicted. Further, convinced Griffin to lie for him to avoid a fine for speeding in her car. Convictions: Conspiracy to pervert the course of public justice, misconduct in a public office, unspecified drugs offences.


 * Richard Bowen – A Dyfed-Powys constable who sat in a car on a long journey with an arrested girl sought over car theft. Wrote notes seeking sex and exposure from her, and twice wanked into a handkerchief. Classy. Police incompetence meant he was able to dispose of the notes, but not escape conviction despite a good shot at getting away with it. Convictions: Indecent exposure (x2), abusing a position of public trust.


 * Lynette White murder investigators – A group of police charged with conspiracy to pervert the course of justice over framing the innocent for murder. Trial one of two underway.


 * Meredydd Hughes – Chief Constable of South Yorkshire and head of all the traffic cops in the land (since resigned from latter iirc). Still serving. Convictions: Speeding (multiple).


 * Sarfraz Ibrahim is another candidate for the best of the rest if such does appear here. Used his position as Gwent trials chief for the CPS to drop a charge for cash and got a nasty surprise when it turned out the case was faked for a sting. Guilty pleas. Convictions: 'Corruption(?)', perverting the course of justice, misconduct in a public office.


 * Peter Yeats – Sussex sergeant who heard on the job that £3.5k had been handed in after being found lost. Invented a false alias and rang his own force saying his wife had lost the dough. Resigned. Guilty plea. Convictions: Fraud by false representation.


 * Daren Pooley – a Met Detective Constable who was deployed to Leeds longterm following the London bombings. Teamed up with his brother-in-law and future wife to purposely overcharge for accommodation on expenses. Convictions: Conspiracy to defraud.


 * Salim Razaq – Lancashire sergeant who hid guns and cash for his drug gangster brother and arranged witness intimidation to try and collapse the man's kidnap trial. Admitted the offences. Fired quicker than usual using a fast-track process. Convictions: Misconduct in a public office, perverting the course of justice (x2), possession of a firearm (x3), possession of ammunition, conspiracy to transfer criminal property, conspiracy to acquire or retain criminal property.


 * Mark Bohannan – an experienced PC with (guess who) the Met. His wife has this cocaine habit, see, and Mark figured that if he fed drugs squad info off the police database to the dealer then Denise could earn some cash and free drugs. The arrangement lasted six years; entertainingly, the dealer gave evidence for the prosecution. Everybody hates a grass, unless you're grassing on the cops, one assumes. Convictions: Conspiracy to commit misconduct in a public office.


 * John Dougal – PC who wrongly identified a car as nicked on the streets of Newcastle and hit 94 chasing it without lights or sirens. Killed a teenage girl crossing the road. Cops in the force were internally convicted of misconduct and slapped on the wrist for some delightful comments on the deceased (nothing like kicking a girl when she's down dead); John isn't so lucky. I feel so safe with Northumbria as the force almost on my doorstep. Convictions: Causing death by dangerous driving.


 * Lucy Bevan – PCSO. I swear, I swear I'm not purposely seeking Northumbria with these two side-by-side. She used the Police National Computer hundreds of times, seeking... a bloke. She wanted details on men she met on the job in search of the perfect partner. No, it isn't April Fools Day. Convictions: obtaining information illegally (x11).


 * Paul Stubbs – Lincolnshire Inspector who knows that parked cars are such small things. Tiny, really. It's so easy to go ramming up the back end of one. In this case, one young woman was left dead. Convictions: Causing death by careless driving.


 * John Redmond and Darragh McCann – Dublin officers who may become the first Irish representation on this list. Trial outcome will be watched closely. Yes, it's the ROI and not the UK's NI, but they will still be suitable if convicted.


 * Muztaq Patala charged


 * Dustin Hunter, a Surrey constable found with 994kg (such a precise amount) of cannabis in his car. While suspended he sought other career advancement with an undercover cop and they toyed with various crime before settling on planning a robbery, with police information passed to explain how to do it and stolen cop uniforms supplied. Drugs went to trial, guilty plea on the rest. Convictions: "drugs offences", encouraging or assisting robbery, theft (x3).


 * Jason Hanvey and Andrew Kennedy – The former GMP PC attacked a young girl for kicks following her arrest, the latter was his custody sergeant. Interestingly, although Kennedy didn't lay finger on her because he actively approved and encouraged the abuse both were treated equally. Hanvey had kept his job despite a historic assault conviction. Convictions: Misconduct in a public office.


 * Charles Overend – The Met just keep on appearing and appearing. Constable engaged in multimillion £ propery fraud. Convictions: obtaining money by deception (x6), 'possessing a false identity'.


 * Stephen Kelly, a Sussex constable with a bit of kiddie porn (17 images) and at least two historical sex attacks against a girl of seven/eight (different years). Convictions: Indecent assault (multiple), possessing indecent images.


 * Graham Wallace – attacked a bar manager, fracturing his hip.


 * David Driver – A Gloucestershire PC who found two men out cold one freezing winter's night. Just left 'em propped up when he couldn't wake them and continued on his beat. Night was so cold when Jo(e) Public found them ten minutes later xe hit 999. Only one survived. Driver damn near got away with it, too, but when it became apparent he wasn't the lies started. Convictions: Misconduct in a public office, perverting the course of justice.


 * Grania Hale – Sussex PC who told a drugs suspect police had a search warrant. Convictions: Misconduct in a public office.


 * The rape that never was. The C.P.S. won't charge, but the Met fire him anyway. As yet, reserving judgement on guilt.


 * Dalvin Dawkins – Lancashire Sergeant, involved in major fraud and money laundering with his relatives.


 * Kashif Hussain – a West Yorkshire police officer who has a hit-and-run in his police car with a parked Lexus. Was alleged in court to have asked an eyewitness to be a no show at trial. Convictions: Failure to stop, failure to report an accident.


 * Craig Robertson – Charged; trial to follow


 * Gavin Hannah – PC with Strathclyde, groped a couple of women just before Xmas '09. Convictions: Inecent assault x2 afaict.


 * Steven Smith – Strathclyde PC, misused the national database to look up his lover. Convictions: two breaches of the Data Protection Act.


 * Jordan Janssen – Met PC with an interest in online child porn. Was somehow involved in producing the stuff; convictions: One count each of making and distributing (183 pics/vids).


 * Kristian James Abbott – got jiggy with somebody while a 15-year-old girl was in his patrol car. Convictions: Engaging in sexual activity in the presence of a child.


 * Ashley Forbes – PC with Grampian who drove a (cleared) boss with blue lights at speed and caused an accident trying to get the man to a flight he was late for. Frankly, I'll be looking at Chief Inspector Tom Forrester as well. Convictions: Careless driving, failure to stop.


 * Edward Prince of the Met facing a prosecution for a fairly serious assault charge.


 * Philip Strolin, PC with Thames Valley. Convictions: Making and possessing indecent images of children.


 * Kevin Ford – Humberside Crime Unit Manager who forcibly groped an 11-year-old and collected child porn. Convictions: "making" indecent images (x3) [information suspect - prose suggests mere possesion], sexual assault.


 * Brian Connor – PSNI officer with a kiddie porn collection. Convictions: 27 unspecified offences (603 images).


 * Nicholas Whitehead – Northamptonshire Seargent who twice forcibly groped a teen girl's tits and obtained £25k by forging his ex-wife's signature. Convictions: Indecent assault (x2), fraud.


 * Karen Howie – Tayside Constable. Had an affair, gave police data to her lover. He then passed it on to a suspect. Also faked records to imply a man had valid car insurance after he was pulled over without it. Convictions: Perverting the course of justice (x2), breach of the Data Protection Act.


 * Michael Fletcher – GMP PC who had sex on duty with a 'vulnerable adult' twice when supposedly meeting her to make sure she was safe. Convictions: Misconduct in a public office (possibly multiple counts?).


 * Daniel Lishman who began a decade of sex attacks, mostly against children, whilst employed by Northamptonshire Police as a Constable (and a Special Constable). Was dismissed early on in this timeline for "sexual allegations" made by a female colleague but not prosecuted for these. He used a dog grooming business, and claimed he was a cop to help him access people to attack; at least one was imprisoned in his van; he took snaps of his escapades. Convictions: 26 offences, including rape, sexual and/or indecent assault (x12+). Asked for four more to be taken into consideration.


 * Brian Wilfred Richard Connor of the PSNI ended 25 years of service in jail after his child porn collection was discovered. Convictions: Possession of indecent images of children (x27).


 * Andrew Warwick – GMP PC who wouldn't leave his ex alone when they split. Convictions: Harassment.


 * David Ewen – Presumably of GMP. Raped a woman and a decade later broke into his ex's house and attacked her and her daughter with a truncheon. Also convicted of unspecified "sex offences against three girls." Convictions: Rape, indecent assault, agravated burglary, assault (x2?).


 * Lee Rackham of Humberside, tried for serial sex crimes. Cleared of some, guilty of others. Convictions: Attempted rape, sexual assault (x2).


 * Warren Pash of the Met attacked a man in a skate park and claimed to be searching him for drugs even though he was off-duty. Convictions: Common assault.


 * Paul Dawson – South Yorkshire PC who hurled racial abuse at a cabbie who sought a fare upfront. Convictions: using racially threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour.


 * Stephen Hulse – Merseyside PC doing covert probes into car theft. Crossed two southbound lanes of A-road and went straight into a northbound fast lane without stopping - and was hit from behind by a motorcyclist with a speed difference of 39 mph. Convictions: Causing death by careless driving.


 * David Sewell – Leicestershire Seargent who transferred a man from the cells to an ambulance - by grabbing the handcuffs, dragging the man accross the floor and then yanking him back up by the cuffs. Convictions: Common assault.


 * Paul Page – a Royal protection officer with the Met who ran a spread-betting scheme from the Palace. When that collapsed, he moved on to properties - except his business didn't actually own any of the property his clients invested in. Colleagues alone coughed up £1.3M and a further £1.7M came from various others. His own name for the scam was United Piss your savings up the wall LTD. He also ripped into other officers, some of whom admitted lesser malpractice on-the-job. Convictions: Fraud.


 * Richard McEvoy of the P.S.N.I. downloaded and later deleted various child pornos, including rapes. Convictions: Making an indecent image of a child (x14).


 * Patrick Byrne – Seargent who banged his wife's head onto the pavement and ripped her hair out. Convictions: Assault.


 * Gary Jay – an Essex PC who overheard a father telling his son off and entered the family's house, pushing the man and his wife. The father died later; he had a heart condition and a recent stroke under his belt, and was meant to be avoiding stress. Convictions: Common assault (x2).


 * Simon Jenkinson – A Yorkshire Seargent who had, it appears, intended to plead guilty to offences related to an insurance fraud, but instead killed himself.


 * John Anderson – Unclear if the ex-Northumbria officer was serving at the time; may not qualify. Darted in front of a truck and slammed his brakes, causing three lorries to plough in from behind; one driver will never work again. Convictions: Dangerous driving.


 * Nicola Williams – Avon and Somerset civillian worker who spent years running a fraud based on lies she had cancer; she told colleagues she needed £700 per month for a cancer drug not on the NHS. A cancer charity matched funds raised by her workmates. Total illegal earnings: £36,000. Convictions: Obtaining property by deception (x3), fraud (x3).


 * Joseph McCabe – a Met IT consultant who was simultaneously downloading child porn at his home over in Scotland. Convictions: Possession of 13,358 images and 33 films of child pornography.


 * Nicholas Stone – Married PC who got into an affair with a woman he met on-duty whilst with Devon & Cornwall. Alleged to have had sex on duty with her and hence comitting misconduct, he also faced a claim he raped the woman. He was cleared of two misconducts and the rape, but in having sex with her was guilty of a third charge. Convictions: Misconduct in a public office.


 * John Cragg – Sex crimes specialist (Detective Sergeant) at Lancashire who had sex with the mother of a rape complainant, and a complainant in another case involving several women alleging rape by two men. Two cases, one involving multiple child rape charges, where dropped as a result. Convictions: Misconduct in a public office (x2).


 * Hayley Cloud and Natalie Ricketts – Met PC and civilian worker respectively, engaged in conspiracy to keep a prison supplied with drugs and steal luxury cars. Convictions: conspiracy to cause misconduct in a public office (both), theft (both), handling stolen goods (Cloud).


 * Emma Smiter – Hertfordshire PCSO, leaked stories to the press. Convictions: Misconduct in a public office, attempting to pervert the course of justice.


 * Andrew Moore - A Lancaster PC with a collection of child porn. Convictions: possession of indecent images of children (x8, 84 images).


 * Craig McAllister - Firearms officer (lost this position between arrests) twice arrested while out with other officers. "Public order offence" (drunk, rowdy, dancing on tables) not prosecuted but disciplined, common assault cautioned and provoked resignation.


 * Simon Harwood - The Met PC who so infamously attacked Ian Tomlinson. Facing trial following inquest.


 * Jason Butler - Avon & Somerset officer. Twice sent documents under a flase name in bids to avoid speeding fines. Convictions: Perverting the course of justice (x2).


 * Timothy Moorhouse from Lincolnshire, stole weed from evidence to smoke. Convictions: Theft (x9), possession of cannabis.


 * Mark Colebrook - GMP, took a suspect's car and crashed it. Convictions: Careless driving.


 * Paul Greig - Lothian & Borders Sgt. Raped two young girls he was babysitting back in the 70s. Convictions: Rape (x2), indecent practices (x2).


 * The assault that never was - The Met have coughed up compensation [and, iirc, confessed to an assault] but the jury was very quick to acquit.


 * Antony Vodden - Met Sergeant, child porn interest. Convictions: making indecent images of children


 * Joe Smales murder investigators - It is best to quote Lord Brown's Supreme Court judgement directly: "To describe police misconduct on this scale merely as shocking and disgraceful is to understate the gravity of its impact on the prosecution process. It is hard to imagine a worse case of sustained prosecutorial dishonesty designed to secure and hold a conviction at all costs... Amongst the more surprising ["wholly inappropriate benefits"] were that whilst in police custody [grass Karl] Chapman was at various times permitted to visit a brothel, to engage in sexual relations with a woman police constable, to visit public houses, to consume not merely alcohol but also cannabis and even heroin, to socialise at police officers' homes." The Supreme Court holds this amounted to perverting the course of justice.


 * Stephen Spellacy teamed up with a Norwich Union employee for fraud and money laundering.


 * Russell Dew, Nottinghamshire, charged.


 * Mark Fisher, aka Fish the Flirt, who misused police records to search out women for sex, gave one money and booze with a promise to feed her drug habit if she fed his sex habit, and made a potential future trial difficult or impossible by showing one woman an image of a suspect in an assault upon her. Ironically, he worked in the "protection" unit. Convictions: Misconduct in a public office (multiple).


 * Anthony Perkins and Paul Salvesen - DC and PC with West Yorkshire who caused a serious car crash in their unmerked vehicles. Convictions: Careless driving.