PC Tom Phillips sent 'grossly offensive' messages to his ex-partner and her and her new boyfriend.
A Metropolitan Police officer has been jailed for 71 days after admitting sending "grossly offensive" messages of an "indecent, obscene or menacing character".
Ms Oakley said Phillips became "arrogant" and would "belittle" his ex-girlfriend but they continued to live together at a house they had bought.Judge Cieciora told Phillips his messages "were not simply an emotional outburst" He tried to suggest his partner had written the texts on his phone and sent them to herself to frame him, adding the screenshots were doctored and she had got her partner to do it for her.
Defending, Phillips' lawyer said the views expressed in the messages were not his client's real ones, that Phillips had shown "genuine remorse", and had acted in the context of the end of the relationship.
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