Cop suspended for ‘sexist, racist’ texts to WPC
A POLICEMAN has been suspended over claims he sent sexual and racist texts to a vulnerable rookie female officer he was meant to be helping.
Detective Sergeant Stephen Redgewell, 52, was assisting the WPC in his role with the Police Federation.
The young married woman, who is of Asian heritage, was putting together an employment tribunal case against the Metropolitan Police after an undercover operation left her with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.
It is claimed Redgewell sent her messages with “unwanted inappropriate sexual content” including racist and homophobic language between 2015 and 2017.
One read: “Sleep well my dirty Catwoman.” In another, he said of another colleague: “It’s a bossy Muslim woman thing lol xxx”.
After telling him she had a temperature, Redgewell is said to have replied: “Stick a thermometer up your b*m lol xx”.
When she told him how she had lost her temper from stress, he is alleged to have replied: “Lol it’s because you want to marry me instead and you are taking your anger out on them don’t deny it.”
He also said she had competition because “my Turkish Muslim wants to marry me now”.
In other texts he joked that Saudi was “renowned for pork pies” and observed: “I’m not sure what it is about Middle Eastern countries and pigs.”
A colleague reported him after growing concerned about his alleged conduct.
The woman had been sent to trace a cousin who had fled to Pakistan after a murder – despite being just out of probation and with no undercover training.
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