Party boat cop ‘threw punches to protect colleague from Romanians’

A Met Police officer who fought with a group of Romanian men following a cruise on the Thames admitted he threw a few punches when he saw his colleague on the ground being attacked. Alex Fackerell, 31, along with Kellsey Millar, 32, Jack Sparkes, 34, Max Michaels-Dubois, 33, and Daniel Dean, 38, had been drinking heavily before they boarded a river boat for their Christmas party on December 1, 2023. The officers, all attached to the Met’s Territorial Support Group,…