February 5 – The trial of Chelsea and Australian worldwide Sam Kerr continued yesterday with the striker saying she feared for her life when “trapped” in a taxi. This second occurred earlier than she was alleged to have brought on racially aggravated harassment to a police officer, constable Stephen Lovell.
In court docket, the Aussie captain gave proof saying she was “terrified” and her companion, USWNT midfielder Kristie Mewis was “crying and scared.”
On January 30, 2023, it’s alleged that Kerr and Mewis who had been out consuming have been pushed to the Twickenham Police Station by a taxi driver, who complained that they’d refused to pay clean-up prices after considered one of them was sick, and that considered one of them smashed the car’s rear window.
On the police station Kerr is alleged to have grow to be “abusive and insulting” in the direction of PC Lovell. The phrases “silly and white” the place used in opposition to Lovell, and Kerr has not denied making the feedback.
In court docket, Kerr advised the jury that she put her head out of the window when she started to really feel sick earlier than the driving force “rolled it up” and commenced to “drive dangerously.”
“I used to be terrified for my life,” she stated. “We weren’t in management … I deemed him to be harmful due to the driving but in addition as a result of he might have taken us wherever. He couldn’t be tracked so nobody knew the place we have been.”
Kerr described attempting to open the doorways and home windows of the taxi however they remained locked. Mewis then used her footballing expertise and kicked out the window.
PC Lovell was carrying a physique digital camera when he confronted Kerr and that was performed to the jury who heard Kerr say she and Mewis have been “very scared” and “attempting to flee” the cab after they broken the car.
Kerr additionally made reference to Sarah Everard, who was murdered by Met Police officer Wayne Couzens in 2023, telling officers a couple of “woman in Clapham” who “acquired raped and killed.”
She allegedly stated to PC Lovell: “I do know it wasn’t you … however each of us are scared.”
Kerr, is at present recovering from an ACL harm suffered in January 2024.
The trial continues.
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