A senior police officer abused his position by calling a junior colleague an "Asian babe" in "racially and sexually explicit messages", a misconduct panel has found.
Former Detective Sergeant Stephen Redgewell, 54, also sent “anti-Semitic, racist, homophobic and sexist" messages, the police watchdog said.
One read: “Sleep well my dirty Catwoman.” In another, he said of another colleague: “It’s a bossy Muslim woman thing lol xxx”.
After telling him she had a temperature, Redgewell is said to have replied: “Stick a thermometer up your b*m lol xx”. Redgewell, who resigned from the force in November 2018, after the allegations emerged, would have been sacked for gross misconduct if he were still a serving officer.
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