It is alleged that Kerr, 31, and her partner, West Ham midfielder Kristie Mewis, had been out drinking when they were driven to Twickenham Police Station by a taxi driver who complained that they had refused to pay clean-up costs after one of them was sick and that one of them smashed the vehicle’s rear window.
Speaking to the jury during her closing remarks, Grace Forbes, defending said: “No consideration appears to have been given that the driver could have done what two women said he did and still ended up at the police station… even if you are drunk you can still be the victim of a crime… no wonder the police have never heard from the driver again.
Jury in trial of Chelsea striker Sam Kerr begins deliberations A jury has retired to consider its verdicts in the trial of Chelsea striker Sam Kerr, who is charged with causing racially aggravated harassment.
Footage from Pc Lovell’s body-worn camera was previously played to jurors, in which Kerr tells him and Pc Samuel Limb that she and Ms Mewis were “very scared” and “trying to escape” the cab when they damaged the vehicle.
During the trial, Kerr denied using “whiteness as an insult” and explained: “I believed it was him using his power and privilege over me because he was accusing me of being something I’m not… I was trying to express that due to the power and privilege they had, they would never have to understand what we had just gone through and the fear we were having for our lives.”.
