Two Metropolitan Police officers have been handed their jobs back after winning an appeal following their sacking for the stop-and-search of Team GB athlete Bianca Williams and her boyfriend.
Former Met PCs Jonathan Clapham and Sam Franks were dismissed in October last year after a panel found they had lied about smelling cannabis when they pulled over the Portuguese Olympic sprinter Ricardo Dos Santos and Williams.
But the finding has now been overturned by the Police Appeals Tribunal which found the original decision was ‘irrational’ and ‘inconsistent’.
Former PCs Clapham and Franks were ‘dedicated, hard-working and much respected officers’ whose reputations had been ‘ruined’ by the original findings, Appeals Tribunal chairman Damien Moore said.
He added: ‘Both officers did not lie. Both officers will now be reinstated to the Met Police. They should receive back-pay.’
Ricardo Dos Santos is handcuffed in Maida Vale, north London, in July 2020 while driving along with their…