Sentence delay for coercive cop

A Met police officer must wait until November before he is sentenced for engaging in coercive and controlling behaviour with his ex-girlfriend because of the barristers’ strike. PC Mathew Cooper, 24, attached to the Central West Command Unit was training to be a police officer at the time of the offence between 1 June 2019 and 9 December 2020. Cooper admitted controlling and coercive behaviour without violence earlier this year. According to the charge he made threats to self-harm’ if…