PC faces retrial over £200 theft claim

Chelmsford STRATFORD

A police officer who claimed to forget pocketing £200 handed in by an honest member of the public at Westfield Shopping Centre faces a retrial after jurors failed to agree on whether he intended to keep it. PC Christopher Kershaw, 41, was shopped by a junior colleague after he trousered the wad of notes found by Deliveroo courier at the mall in Stratford, east London. He told jurors at Southwark Crown Court he ‘totally forgot’ about the cash which remained…

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