Chair of the Met’s Black Police Association claims he is the victim of a racist conspiracy

The chair of the Met’s Black Police Association swapped thousands of offensive messages with a colleague including sick jokes about the royal family, a hearing was told. Inspector Charles Ehikioya, 58, shared more than 7,000 messages with former PC Carlo Francisco between 2017 and 2020. Posts included mocking Prince Phillip’s car crash, a video suggesting Katie Price’s disabled son Harvey was on drugs and a joke about sex with a girl with Down’s Syndrome. Francisco had been involved in a…