A Cleveland Police officer, PC Ian Coverdale, has been dismissed after he was found to have touched and bitten a woman’s breast in a pub.
A Cleveland Police misconduct hearing found PC Ian Coverdale’s actions breached professional standards and he was sacked without notice.
During the four-day hearing at Scotswood House in Thornaby, PC Ian Coverdale admitted he had put his head between the victim’s breasts but claimed any bite was “accidental”.
The misconduct panel found his account to be “untruthful” and his actions in December 2023 were found to have amounted to gross misconduct.
A misconduct proceedings, at a hearing at Scotswood House in Thornaby, determination report stated that PC Ian Coverdale’s account of the events was “unpersuasive, lacked cogency and in some respects was contradicted by CCTV footage from the public house”.
“His account in a number of respects was not capable of belief,” it read.
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