Cop denies mocking disabled person

A Met Police officer has denied sending grossly offensive WhatsApp messages mocking a person’s disability. PC Ashley Cooper, 31, a response officer in Southwark and Lambeth, was suspended from duty when the allegations came to light in October 2023. Cooper, of Epsom, Surrey, was charged with two counts of sending grossly offensive messages after a probe by the Scotland Yard’s anti-corruption unit. Wearing a dark blue suit and a red tie, he denied the two offences, on 29 December 2020…