Two serving Metropolitan Police officers and a former officer have denied sending grossly offensive messages to Sarah Everard's killer Wayne Couzens
It comes after the police watchdog sent evidence concerning the officers for consideration of offences regarding "grossly offensive material" under the Communications Act.
The Independent Office for Police Conduct launched a probe into claims they and other officers sent "discriminatory messages" - reportedly racist and misogynistic - over WhatsApp between March and October 2019 after the information was recovered from an old mobile phone found during the police probe into Ms Everard's murder.
PC Jonathon Cobban, PC William Neville and former officer Joel Borders will go on trial at Westminster Magistrates court on July 28.The three defendants appeared in the dock at Westminster Magistrates' Court on Wednesday charged with sending grossly offensive messages on a public communications network between April 5 and August 9 2019.Meanwhile, Couzens was given a whole-life sentence back in September.
The serving officer handcuffed 33-year-old Sarah Everard in a "false arrest" before abducting her on the evening of March 3 last year. Two witnesses saw him detain Sarah on the street and assumed he was acting legitimately, the Old Bailey heard in a two-day sentencing.Ms Everard was abducted at the height of the Covid-19 lockdown and was more likely to submit to the accusation she broke Covid-19 rules, prosecutors said.
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