British Transport Police wins 'landmark' legal fight to sack sex pest PC

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British Transport Police wins 'landmark' legal fight to sack sex pest PC
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A police officer who flashed his warrant card to try and chat to a lone female jogger before telling her she ‘looked too curvy to be Asian’ has been sacked.

The British Transport Police went to court to overturn a misconduct panel decision which let Imran Aftab keep his job

But the BTP successfully challenged the decision through a judicial review, described by Chief Constable Lucy D’Orsi as ‘a landmark ruling that preserves my faith in justice’ amid an ‘ongoing struggle to restore the confidence of women in policing’.

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