My family is sick and angry for innocent Harvey

He doesn’t know about this. It could do serious harm to him if he did KATIE ON BELOVED SON HARVEY’S VULNERABILITY

note for her followers. She is unable to attend but hopes to watch it remotely. And she told of her hopes that, if guilty, those involved would face “severe consequences”.

“What they have done is disgusting, and if they are allowed to get away with it, then our system needs a complete overhaul. If they aren’t punished, what’s to stop it happening again to other vulnerable people?

“As far as I’m concerned, no punishment is enough. I want there to be severe consequences for them if guilty. If I was face to face with one of them, I’d want them to meet Harvey and see how innocent he is, to see the person they are said to have targeted.

“For all of the online abuse he has had, no one has ever bullied him to his face because everyone loves him. He is kind and respectful.”

The allegations are another blow to the floundering reputation of a force still reeling from a series of scandals. Last month saw evil Met officer David Carrick convicted of 85 rapes and serious crimes. He remained on the force in spite of repeated warnings he was a danger to women.

Following his conviction new Met Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley – who has vowed to carry out a forensic clean-up – admitted “two or three” officers a week would face trials for crimes such as violence against women and dishonesty until 2025.

In December Met policemen Gary Bailey and Matthew Forster were sacked after a misconduct hearing into a Whats-app group in which racist and sexist posts were shared with other PCS.

To build its case, the Independent Office for Police Conduct analysed more than 6,000 messages which included racist and homophobic abuse, and derogatory remarks about domestic abuse victims, people with disabilities and women.

A month earlier serving Met PC Jonathon Cobban and former constable Joel Borders were jailed for 12 weeks for offensive racist and misogynistic Whatsapp messages swapped in a group with killer cop Wayne Couzens. The disturbing messages had come to light after his arrest for the kidnap, rape and murder of Sarah Everard in March 2021.

Earlier, PCS Deniz Jaffer and Jamie Lewis were jailed for 33 months for sending photos of murder victims Nicole Smallman and Bibaa Henry on Whatsapp groups.