Sam Kerr called policeman ‘stupid and white’ after late-night taxi dispute

Sam Kerr called a Metropolitan police officer “fucking stupid and white” after he doubted her claim of being abducted by a taxi driver, a court has heard.

Kerr, 31, the captain of the Australian women’s football team and Chelsea’s star striker, appeared in Kingston crown court on Monday charged with causing racially aggravated intentional harassment, alarm or distress in Twickenham, south-west London, on 30 January 2023.

Bill Emlyn Jones, for the prosecution, told the court that Kerr, whom he described as a “fantastic football player”, and her partner, Kristie Mewis, who is also a professional football player, had been on a night out in Clapham, south-west London, before hailing a black cab.

Once inside, one of them was sick. The driver asked them to pay for the cost of cleaning it up but they refused. After this, the driver called the police to complain about their behaviour and drove them to the Twickenham police station – instead of the original destination of Kerr’s home – on the advice of the emergency responder over the phone.

On the way to the station, the taxi’s rear window was smashed.

PC Stephen Lovell and PC Samuel Limb were in a marked police vehicle driving towards the station and arrived at the same time as the taxi, about 2.20am.

They saw broken glass on the road and a taxi parked up as they approached the station. The taxi driver honked his horn to alert the approaching officers.

Kerr allegedly climbed out of the broken taxi window before she and Mewis approached the police car. They were taken inside the station while the taxi driver was kept outside.

Inside the station, Kerr told Lovell that she thought the pair were being kidnapped before calling the officer “fucking stupid and white”.

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