West End club owner ‘bribed cops’

A former Met Police officer who founded of one of London’s most exclusive nightclubs appeared in court  accused of a bribery plot. Entrepreneur Ryan Bishti, 41, launched Soho’s Cirque le Soir and has opened other clubs in the capital and across the world. Bishti and Frank Partridge, 48, a former sergeant in the Westminster police licensing unit, were charged with conspiracy to commit bribery after a long-running probe by the Met’s Directorate of Professional Standards Anti-Corruption Command. Investigators had looked…