Top cop in court for ‘barging’ colleague

A senior Scotland Yard officer has appeared at Westminster magistrates’ court charged with assaulting a junior female colleague. Chief Inspector Andrew Johnstone, 51, denied ‘shoulder barging’ Penelope Mills at the Yard’s headquarters after a training session on January 17 this year. The officer is alleged to collided with Ms Mills as he left the training day on the eighth floor offices on the Embankment. Johnstone, who works at the Roads and Transport Policing Command, is currently serving restricted duties in…