The former chairman of the Police Federation of England and Wales has been found by a disciplinary tribunal to have committed gross misconduct by making a comment about a police widow.
John Apter was found to have said he would like to 'comfort' PC Andrew Harper's widow Lissie in his hotel room, shortly before she collected a posthumous award on behalf of her late husband. PC Harper, who worked for Thames Valley Police, was killed while responding to a bike theft by three teenagers in Berkshire in August 2019 just four weeks after getting married.
' Mr Apter, who retired as a PC from Hampshire Constabulary in 2022, was cleared of making a comment about a colleague and of touching a woman's bottom. He had denied all three allegations. Mr Apter made the comment about Mrs Harper during a staff 'huddle' in preparation for an awards ceremony at the annual Roads Policing Conference in January 2020, the panel ruled. This breaking news story is being updated and more details will be published shortly.
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