Metropolitan Police officer who held up racist signs next to sleeping train passengers ‘should be sacked’, disciplinary panel rules
The IndependentGet the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy A police officer who posed next to sleeping train passengers holding up racist signs should be sacked, a disciplinary panel has ruled. The panel that Mr Wells had posed next to sleeping train passengers while holding up racist messages while commuting with security colleagues. Mr Wells, who was a bodyguard for celebrities including Katie Price and singer Katherine Jenkins, held a sign next to a sleeping black man which said: “I’m a prince in my own country”. He held another next to a sleeping Asian man saying: “I forgot deodorant today.” When the black man woke up and challenged him, Mr Wells’ former private security work boss Daniel O’Leary and colleague, fire station manager Phil Pidgeon, said Wells held up his police warrant card.
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