London police officers found guilty of sharing ‘grossly offensive’ WhatsApp messages

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Two police officers have been found guilty of sending grossly offensive messages on a WhatsApp group. 

PC Jonathon Cobban, 35, and former officer Joel Borders, 45, were each found guilty by Canada Magistrates’ Court today and will be sentenced on 2 November at Westminster Magistrates’ Court.
 
Rosemary Ainslie, head of the CPS Special Crime Division, said: “It is incomprehensible that serving police officers could think it was right to share these kinds of grossly offensive messages with others.”

She added: “By these verdicts, the court has agreed that they were not just shocking or disturbing banter, but they amounted to criminal offences.

“Where there is sufficient evidence and it is in the public interest to do so, the CPS will always prosecute these offences robustly,” Ainslie concluded.