Jail for cop who sent racist texts about ex partner’s new man

A Met Police officer who sent racist WhatsApp messages to his ex-girlfriend when she started seeing a mixed race colleague has been jailed for 71 days. PC Thomas Phillips, 34, attached to the Met Ops team, sent five ‘grossly offensive’ WhatsApp messages to his ex-partner, PC Samantha Ryan and described her partner as a ‘n***** p****,’ Westminster magistrates court heard. Phillips originally denied five charges of sending by public communication network, an offensive message, but later changed his plea to…

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