‘Controlling police officer sat on partner’s cat and dog’

A Met Police officer coercively controlled his partner while causing suffering to a cat and dog by sitting on them, a court heard. PC Chris Eckford-Soper, 41, allegedly prevented the woman from feeding her cat and monitored her through a camera in the kitchen. The officer appeared at Westminster Magistrates’ Court charged with engaging in controlling or coercive behaviour between 1 August 2021 and 16 October 2022. The charge alleges the officer was ‘acting in a way that is physically,…