Sam Kerr has been found not guilty of racially aggravated harassment of police officer following a seven-day trial at Kingston Crown Court.
Kerr, one of women’s football’s highest-profile players, had been accused of intentionally causing “racially aggravated harassment, alarm or distress” 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 her fiancee, the U.S. international Kristie Mewis, who is pregnant with their first child.
At the end of the evening, after unsuccessfully trying for three Ubers, they hailed a black cab on Oxford Street in central London and headed back to Kerr’s home in Richmond.
However, the taxi driver ended up calling the police to complain, saying they had refused to pay clean-up costs for vomit in the cab and after Mewis had smashed the rear window.
Instead of dropping them home, he instead took them to Twickenham police station, where they were met by officers.
It was once inside the police station that Kerr allegedly became abusive and referenced PC Lovell’s race.
Earlier in the trial, the court was shown bodycam footage in which Kerr was heard saying: “You guys are f******* stupid and white”, followed by “honestly, you guys are f*******…
