Two cops have left GMP in disgrace following an internal investigation into a 'racist' police WhatsApp group. PC Rebekah Kelly was yesterday (Wednesday) dismissed without notice while PC Ashley Feest was told he would have been sacked had he not previously resigned and was barred from returning to police work.
A third police officer, PC Graham Atkinson, was handed a final written warning. All three cops were found to have committed gross misconduct. READ MORE Manchester man, 21, arrested in international police operation The tribunal heard at least six male police officers were members of a police WhatsApp group titled 'The Dispensables' and subtitled 'the gods of north Manchester who risk their lives every day to f*** jobs off'.
Racist and homophobic language was used in chat on the group which was said to be dominated by another officer, PC Aaron Jones, who left the force in disgrace last year.
PC Jones was said to have dismissed troublemakers at Eid celebrations in Manchester's Curry Mile, in August 2018, as 'smelly P*** c***s' in a separate chat with PC Kelly, away from the group, with PC Kelly, his girlfriend.
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