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A former Metropolitan police officer who sent ‘misogynistic’ messages about a female colleague and visited her home in an emergency vehicle while on duty would have been sacked had he not already resigned, a misconduct hearing has concluded.
Ex-police constable Nathan Skipper admitted going to the home of the woman, who can only be identified as Officer A, on July 30, 2021 while on duty in an immediate response vehicle without seeking prior permission from his boss or a senior officer.
Skipper, who was part of North East Command Unit covering the London boroughs of Waltham Forest and Newham, went to Officer A’s home after receiving a message from her the day before saying she wanted to speak to a ‘familiar voice’ and worrying for her welfare.
He spent 45 minutes talking to Officer A on her doorstep while his colleague waited in their emergency vehicle, the panel hearing in Southwark, south London, heard yesterday.
Panel chair Christopher McKay said Skipper had been in an ‘intimate relationship’ with Officer A between February and September 2021, but it ended when he took up with another colleague, Officer B.
Ex-police constable Nathan Skipper admitted going to the home of the woman, who can only be identified as Officer A, on July 30, 2021 while on duty in an immediate response vehicle without seeking prior permission from his boss or a senior officer. Pictured: File photo
This caused Officer A ‘emotional distress’ and she later blocked Skipper from contacting her.
Skipper also admitted sending grim text messages about his former lover, writing to a male colleague on November 28 2021: ‘It’s gonna be awkward when I see her, I’m going to want to cry and also going to want to kick her in the c***’.
He followed up with an image of the actor Samuel L Jackson ‘staring in a menacing way’ and a further black and white image of a man ‘aggressively pushing his hand into the face of a woman’, which he captioned as ‘When I pass her in the corridor’, Mr McKay said.
His horrified colleague showed the messages to Officer A and reported him to a senior officer.
Officer A was ‘visibly shaken’ on seeing the messages, Keith Saunders, the Met representative, told the hearing.
Skipper was later moved to another station and confined to desk duties.
Appearing via video link wearing a dark shirt and tie, he told the panel he quit the force after he became ‘isolated’ and his mental health ‘deteriorated’.
He said he moved to Scotland and is now working as a driving instructor but insisted he ‘loved his job’ in the Met and would consider returning to policing in the future.
Appearing via video link wearing a dark shirt and tie, he told the panel he quit the force after he became ‘isolated’ and his mental health ‘deteriorated’. Pictured: File photo
The panel found Skipper used the emergency vehicle to visit Officer A ‘without authority’ for a ‘personal matter’ which did not relate ‘urgent welfare needs’.
It said his decision to take the vehicle out of the borough could have had ‘adverse consequences’ had it been required to attend an emergency and that the public would regard his actions as
