Police officers sacked after probe into homophobic WhatsApp chat – PinkNews
Former and serving Greater Manchester Police officers have been barred from policing for life after exchanging derogatory, racists and homophobic posts in a WhatsApp chat. (Getty Images) Former Greater Manchester Police (GMP) officers who “revelled” in drug use have been barred from policing for life for sharing derogatory, racist and homophobic texts via WhatsApp. The three former and serving officers – PC Ashley Feest, PC Graham Atkinson and Aaron Jones – have been called a “complete disgrace” by head of the GMP professional standards branch, detective chief superintendent Mike Allen, after being found to have exchanged offensive texts via a WhatsApp group called “the Dispensables”. Aaron Jones served as an officer before resigning in March 2021 after being convicted of offering to supply Class C drugs which led to his dismissal from GMP. Detective Chief Superintendent Allen said: “The conduct of these officers was a complete disgrace and it is fitting that three members of the WhatsApp group now find themselves barred from policing for life, with one also carrying a criminal conviction for offering to supply drugs.” At the time of the incidents, all three officers worked in GMP’s City of Manchester north division. Led by an independent legally qualified chair
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