Met inspector dismissed without notice over racist and sexist message chat
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The head of the Metropolitan Black Police Association has been dismissed for gross misconduct over a chat with a former officer in which racist, sexist and inappropriate messages were sent and received. Inspector Charles Ehikioya, who was the full-time chairman of the MBPA, was in a WhatsApp chat with former officer Carlo Francisco, in which the messages were sent and received, a misconduct hearing at Palestra House in London found on Friday.
He also failed to report them, the panel found. In more than 7,000 messages between 2017 and 2020, the officer was said to have sent and received jokes, pictures and videos, it was heard previously. Inspector Ehikioya said the claims were fabricated or falsely attributed to him because of his race or position at the MBPA, the misconduct hearing previously heard.
He sent an image of the late Playboy founder Hugh Hefner, with the comment “message from the other side, tell the Muslims there’s no 72 virgins left”, it was previously said. There was also a series of “racist” messages about Chinese people, the hearing was told.
Jokes about sex with a girl with Down’s syndrome, and mockery of the late Duke of Edinburgh’s car crash, were also in the chatlog, as was a video in which there was a child with a naked bottom, James Berry, representing the Met, said previously. On April 1 2019, Inspector Ehikioya told Mr Francisco to “stop sending or receiving these silly porns”, saying he could get into “trouble”, the hearing was previously told.
