Crunch decision in biscuit case Pc’s favour

A police officer alleged to have taken a colleague’s tin of biscuits has been found not guilty of gross misconduct.

Pc Thomas Hooper, of the Kingston Operational Command Unit in south-west London, was also alleged to have applied to cancel a fixed penalty notice against him and giving false accounts of both incidents.

An employment tribunal ruled after a three-day hearing that he had no case to answer for both allegations and he will shortly return to full duties.