United States international Kristie Mewis told a court on Thursday that her fiancee Sam Kerr was “speaking her truth in how she was feeling” when she called a police officer “stupid and white”.
Kerr, one of women’s football’s most decorated players, is charged with causing racially aggravated harassment to PC Stephen Lovell during the incident inside a police station in the early hours of January 30, 2023.
That followed a night out Kerr had been on with Mewis. At the end of the evening, they hailed a black cab on Oxford Street and headed to Kerr’s home in Richmond. The taxi driver ended up calling the police to complain they had smashed the rear window and so instead of dropping them home, drove them to Twickenham police station.
It was once inside the police station that Kerr allegedly became abusive and referenced PC Lovell’s race.
Kerr does not deny what she said but has pleaded not guilty to one count of racially aggravated harassment.
On day four of the trial, a visibly emotional Mewis, who dabbed her eyes with a tissue, said she “feared for her life” in the taxi.
“I felt out of control and like someone else had control over me and that was obviously very scary… I didn’t know if it was a kidnapping or if we were going to crash,” she said. “All of…
