The grieving widow of a PC who was killed in the line of duty hit out at the former chairman of the Police Federation after he made a ‘sexually suggestive’ comment about comforting her, a misconduct panel heard.
Lissie Harper, the wife of late PC Andrew Harper, said it was ‘highly inappropriate’ of John Apter to allegedly say ‘I’d like to comfort her in my hotel room’.
Mrs Harper also suggested that the police leader abused his senior position by making the remark, for which he faces gross misconduct charges.
Apter – then-head of the police’s rank-and-file union – allegedly made the ‘sexually suggestive’ comment about Mrs Harper to colleagues while organising a visit from her four years ago to collect a posthumous award on behalf of her late husband, Andrew Harper.
Apter is also accused of groping a much-younger constable’s bottom on a police night out and telling a pregnant colleague ‘maybe you’ll get a bum now’.
Retired PC John Apter (pictured) is facing accusations he…