Corrupt sergeant ‘helped make West End safer’

A Met Police sergeant who was lavished with bribes by nightclub bosses helped make London’s West End ‘safer’, a court heard. Frank Partridge, 49, allegedly accepted a £7,000 family holiday to Morocco, a Manchester United shirt signed by Wayne Rooney and the services of a professional escort between 2013 and 2015. He received bespoke suits and shirts paid for by security firm TSS, jurors have heard. One of the bribes was said to be a £3,000-a-ticket end of summer party…