Met inspector ‘joked about Chinese and received video mocking Harvey Price’
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The Metropolitan Police’s Black Police Association head joked about Chinese people and received a video mocking Katie Price’s disabled son Harvey, a misconduct hearing was told. Inspector Charles Ehikioya is accused of being in a chat with former officer Carlo Francisco where racist, misogynistic, homophobic and pornographic messages were sent.
The officer, who is the full-time chair of the MBPA, could be sacked if the claims are proved – but he says they were fabricated or falsely attributed to him because of his race or position at the MBPA, it was heard. In more than 7,000 messages between 2017 and 2020, the officer allegedly sent and received jokes, pictures and videos described by James Berry, representing the Met, as “disgraceful” and inappropriate.
He is also accused of failing to report them. Inspector Ehikioya 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”, a hearing at Palestra House in London was told on Tuesday.
Mr Francisco allegedly sent a video of a man snorting white powder through a tube while wearing a mask of Harvey Price’s face, as the person filming says “Go on Harvey, yeah”. In 2023, Mr Francisco was separately found guilty of gross misconduct over messages shared in another WhatsApp chat with seven others, including some about Harvey Price.
