Cop lied to bail out colleague

A police officer provided a false statement to help a colleague who was involved in an 89mph crash while answering a 999 call. PC Donna Coker, 33, insisted she had no motive to lie after PC Varinder Sehmi, 38 crashed his marked BMW into Adam Tarnowski’s Volvo in Ealing, west London, on 6 August 2017. Coker, the first police officer to attend the scene and secure the area, later said in her statement that tree surgeon Mr Tarnowski ‘appeared to…