Let off for police officer who trashed barbershop with traffic cone

A police officer who smashed up a barber shop with a traffic cone was spared jail after he insisted his drink had been spiked in a nightclub. PC Thomas Pearson, 25, broke his way into Envy Barbers in Covent Garden, central London and caused hundreds of pounds worth of damage in the early hours of 8 February last year. The off-duty constable smashed an electronic till screen and swept all the bottles from the shelves after a boozy night out…