Met cop facing sack after ‘farting in female officer's FACE & laughing when she refused to 'pull my finger''

The Irish Sun

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A MET Police officer is facing the sack after he laughed when farting in a female colleague's face, a disciplinary hearing was told.
PC Wayne Sansom allegedly broke wind after asking the WPC to pull his finger at Wembley Police Station in northwest London on November 2021.
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PC Wayne Sansom allegedly broke wind after asking a female police officer to pull his finger at Wembley Police Station
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PC Sansom "agrees to the 'pull my finger remark" but denies he actually broke wind
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He appeared at Sutton Police station yesterday for the opening of a misconduct hearing
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Fellow officer PC Ben Jeffries is said to have made "inappropriate and discourteous comments" to the same female officer concerning her sexuality and Romanian heritage.
The officers appeared at Sutton Police Station yesterday for the opening of a misconduct hearing expected to last ten days.
Sansom and Jeffries face allegations that their conduct amounted to a breach of the Standards of Professional Behaviour in respect of Discreditable Conduct, Authority, Respect and Courtesy and Equality and Diversity.
Russell Ford, for the Met Police, told the hearing PC Sansom invited the female officer to pull my finger at Wembley Police Station.
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He said: "When she declined he passed wind in her face from around 10-15 cm away."
PC Sansom "agrees to the 'pull my finger remark" but denies he actually broke wind.
Mr Ford added: "He fully accepts his attempt at humour was misplaced and inappropriate in a modern policing workplace.
"PC Sansom approached her and asked her to pull his finger, she knew what was intended and told him to move along.
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"At this, PC Sansom turned his back, stood on his toes and passed wind in her face."
Mr Ford said the incident was "corroborated" by another female officer at the time.
"He described how after he asked the PC to pull his finger, PC Sansom, in close proximity, turned away from her and passed wind very loudly - then laughed out loud and walked away."
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Mr Ford then referred to an occasion in mid-December 2021 when the female officer described assisting on a call-out involving "Romanian people who did not speak English" with PC Sansom.
He added: "Back in the writing room, PC Sansom complained about the Romanians, referring to them as 'f***ing d***heads'."
The female officer replied: "That's OK Wayne everyone knows you don't like Romanian people."
PC Sansom allegedly replied: "That's not true…I would put my dick in you."
He is also accused of asking the female officer "questions about her sexuality" and "calling her a lesbian".
PC Sansom claims that he only asked the officer "once" about her sexuality after hearing rumours circulate about his colleagues' personal life.
The hearing was told that Sansom was concerned that this could lead to her being "unfairly treated or talked about".
Meanwhile, Sutton Police Station heard how PC Jeffries is said to have made "discourteous remarks" to the same female officer about her sexuality.
"This included asking her personal questions of a sexual nature, asking about rimming and asking if she had gone down on someone and asking if someone had gone down on," said Mr Ford.
PC Jeffries allegedly took a picture of his testicles using the female officer's mobile phone at an Extinction Rebellion protest on 25 August 2021.
She had asked PC Jeffries and a colleague if they could get her some water from a nearby shop, and handed over her mobile telephone so they could use her Apple Pay.
Mr Ford said: "When they returned, they were laughing as they approached, and she assumed they had done something to her phone.
"When PC Jeffries handed her back her phone, she opened it and noticed that the last application used was the camera.
"She looked at the last photographs taken and saw what she believed to be a testicle.
"She said: 'That's disgusting', and he (Jeffries) replied: 'Why are you getting offended? It's just a picture of my balls."
Jeffriesalso faces accusations that he made "discourteous remarks motivated by race" about a second female colleague at Wembley Police Station in 2019.
"She says that PC Fitzpatrick invited her to take a seat, whereupon PC Jeffries said to her 'no, take a knee'.
"That remark, the authorities say, was no doubt a reference to a gesture used by the Black Lives Matter movement."
Mr Ford told the hearing of a second incident in which the female officer went to open a door at the police station to find PC Jeffries holding it shut as a joke.
"When he released the door, he laughed and said to her words along the lines of: 'I thought you were going to start screaming Black Lives Matter'."
The female officer was "annoyed and upset about this remark" and recalled another occasion when PC Jeffries pretending to light-heartedly punch her and then said: "Oh, Black Lives Matter! Black Lives Matter!"
Both officers could face the sack if the allegations against them are proved as gross misconduct.
The hearing continues.