Cop ‘threatened’ by PA of senior officer

Evening Standard/London A personal assistant to a senior city of London police officer threatened to have a Pc sacked after a drunken row in a bar, a court heard.Kerrie Wadmore, 41, had drunk half a bottle of champagne and two cocktails when she confronted Pc Paul Szewczyk, telling him “I pay your wages” before claiming she’d get him fired, the court was told.She also called him a “lid” — a derogatory term for uniformed officers used by plain-clothed detectives and which refers to a constable’s helmet, the court heard. Wadmore, who is personal assistant to a chief superintendent, then repeatedly prodded him with her finger before he arrested and handcuffed her in January this year.Szewczyk was called to the Dirty Martini bar in Covent Garden because one of Wadmore’s group, in a dispute about a reserved table, allegedly lunged at a member of the security staff and the entire party was ejected.Outside, the man accused of lunging at the bouncer told Pc Szewczyk that one of his friends had been assaulted and he wanted an arrest made.Pc Szewczyk told City of London magistrates’ court: “At this point I first became aware of Wadmore. She approached me and said she paid my wages and she called me a lid.“Ms Wadmore said she had footage on her phone that showed the assault that her friend sustained. I said, ‘Well, show me what you have on your phone but from what I’ve seen on the CCTV I’m not sure it will change my mind.”“I could smell alcohol on her. Her eyes were glazed, her speech was slightly slurred and she was drunk.“She said to me, ‘As an officer you are refusing to look at my evidence. You wait until I speak to your PSD [professional standards department]’ and she said ‘I’m going to have your job.’”Michael Shaw, defending, put it to him: “You effectively had had enough of her asking you to do what you didn’t want to do and decided to nick her.”Wadmore, of Greenwich, denies being drunk and disorderly in public and assaulting a police officer. The case continues.A third man has been charged with murder over the fatal stabbing of a teenager allegedly chased by a mob through a housing estate.Sodiq Adebayo, 22, from West Sussex, will appear in Hendon Magistrates’ Court in north London on Saturday in connection with the death of 17-year-old Marcel Addai on September 4.Akeem Gbadamosi, 21, and Eugene Ocran, 19, whose addresses have not been released by Scotland Yard, were charged over the murder earlier this week. A Met Police spokesman said: “Officers are attending the scene of the incident this evening, one week after the murder to continue to appeal for witnesses to the incident.”Marcel was found with stab wounds on the St John’s Estate in Hoxton, in the east London borough of Hackney, after police were called to reports of an assault.Witnesses described him being chased by up to 15 people before he died.The London Ambulance Service attended the scene but he was pronounced dead at 11.47pm.His family said they had been left “totally devastated” by his death.A 36-year-old woman was due in court charged with murdering her father at their east London home.Brian Darbyshire, 67, was found dead on Thursday morning after police forced their way into his house in Wykeham Green, Dagenham, having been unable to get an answer at the door.His daughter Clair was arrested in Canterbury, Kent, six hours later.She was charged with murder and was today due at Wimbledon Magistrates’ Court. Police have said they are not looking for anyone else in connection with Darbyshire’s death.A post mortem was due to take place at Queen’s Hospital, Romford.