Former PCs win appeal over athlete search sacking

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Two officers who were sacked for gross misconduct aft their halt and hunt of 2 athletes person won an entreaty against their dismissal.

Met PCs Jonathan Clapham and Sam Franks were fired successful October 2023 aft their hunt of the British satellite championships medallist Bianca Williams and Portugal Olympic sprinter Ricardo Dos Santos.

The 2 men person been handed their jobs backmost aft winning their entreaty against a ruling which said they lied by saying they could odor cannabis during the halt and search.

During the incidental successful July 2020, the mates were pulled implicit by the officers successful Maida Vale, westbound London, and searched connected suspicion of having drugs and weapons, but thing was found.

The officers had followed the athletes arsenic they drove from grooming to their location with their baby, who was past three-months-old.

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