Sam Kerr trial: Met Police officer challenged in court over motives

PC Lovell first noticed Ms Kerr as she crawled by means of a smashed taxi window exterior the police station, Kingston Crown Courtroom was instructed.

The ladies instructed officers the taxi driver had been “performing in a loopy means” by driving very quick, repeatedly stopping and rushing up once more, locking them within the automotive, and refusing to allow them to go for about quarter-hour.

A “heated” dialogue concerning the incident ensued on the station, throughout which Ms Kerr allegedly turned “abusive and insulting” in direction of PC Lovell. She was captured on a body-worn digicam calling him “silly and white”.

The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) initially dominated that the proof didn’t meet the brink to cost Ms Kerr, however a second assertion by PC Lovell made 10 months after his first led to the Met Police charging the striker.

Giving proof earlier on Tuesday, PC Lovell denied he had made his later assertion “purely to get a prison cost over the road”.