Sam Kerr trial: Prosecutor questions officer’s motives

A police officer said he felt “belittled and upset” following an incident involving Chelsea forward Sam Kerr, but insisted he “didn’t make something up to get a charge over the line,” a court heard on Tuesday.

Kerr, Australia‘s captain, is on trial charged with causing racially aggravated harassment to Metropolitan police officer Stephen Lovell in south-west London in the early hours of Jan. 30, 2023.

It is alleged that Kerr, 31, and her partner, West Ham and United States midfielder Kristie Mewis, had been out drinking when they were driven to Twickenham Police Station by a taxi driver who complained that they had refused to pay clean-up costs after one of them was sick, and that one of them smashed the vehicle’s rear window.

The women told officers the driver had been “acting in a crazy way” by driving very fast, repeatedly stopping and speeding up again, locking them in the car, and refusing to let them go for about 15 minutes, Kingston Crown Court heard as the trial continued on Tuesday.

At the police station, Kerr is alleged to have become “abusive and insulting” towards Lovell, calling him “stupid and white.”

Kerr, who is one of the best women’s football players in the world, accepts making the comments but denies that they amount to the charge.

The Crown…