Retired cop guilty of sharing racist ‘parrot’ joke on WhatsApp

A retired Met Police officer who served in the same elite unit as killer cop Wayne Couzens was convicted of sharing a grossly offensive racist message with former colleagues. Michael Chadwell, 62, sent an image of parrots of different colours and children of various ethnicities with the caption: ‘Why do we cherish the variety of colour in every species but our own’ on 28 September 2022. Underneath the caption was a comment saying: ‘Because I’ve never had a bike stolen…