Met inspector ‘in WhatsApp chat with sexist, racist and pornographic messages’
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The Metropolitan Police’s Black Police Association head was in a WhatsApp chat where there were jokes about sex with a girl with Down’s syndrome and mockery of the late Duke of Edinburgh Prince Philip’s car crash, a misconduct hearing has been told.
Inspector Charles Ehikioya is accused of being in a chat with former Pc Carlo Francisco, who in 2023 was separately found guilty of gross misconduct over messages shared in a group with seven others, including some which made fun of Katie Price’s disabled son Harvey.
Their chatlog included a “clearly racist” video mocking a Korean woman pronouncing Coca-Cola, graphic images of a woman on her period, pictures of a female’s face being slapped by an erect penis and a joke about a “Taliban call girl”, it was alleged.
Inspector Ehikioya also sent a video in which a child with a naked bottom was shown, it was alleged. The officer, based in the professionalism command, could be sacked if allegations he was in a group where inappropriate, racist and misogynistic texts were sent between 2017 and 2020 and that he failed to challenge them are proved.
Some messages involved extreme violence, such as people being shot in the head, a Met Police gross misconduct hearing at Palestra House in London heard on Monday. Inspector Ehikioya denies the claims, saying the messages were either fabricated or falsely attributed to him because of his race or position at the MBPA, it was said.
