Repulsive WhatsApps between dad and daughter PCs that cost them their jobs
A dad and daughter who worked together as police officers swapped ‘vile’ WhatsApp messages mocking victims and colleagues.
PCs Craig and Annie Napier engaged in ‘highly derogatory’ and ‘abhorrently racist’ chats for their own ‘self-amusement’ between April 2020 and May 2021, a tribunal heard.
Discussing one crime scene in October 2020, Annie Napier asked ‘Is she mangled?’, before her dad typed back, ‘She’s face down so can’t see a lot just blood round her head.’
After Annie Napier followed up by asking, ‘Oooo! You think its murder?’, Craig Napier replied: ‘Who knows and dares to dream, I’ll let you know when I know babe.’
Both Napiers were found guilty of gross misconduct, with Craig described as the ‘instigator’ and his daughter an active participant in the ‘repulsive’ exchanges.
They would have been sacked had they not resigned earlier this year.
The panel’s report said their messages were ‘highly offensive, hostile and discriminatory on the grounds of disability, race, nationality, gender and sexual orientation’.
Craig Napier messaged his daughter in January 2021 saying he was ‘on a crappy p***ed up s**g rape scene’.
When he was at the scene of a child’s death in August 2020, Annie Napier sent him a message saying: ‘Yeah I heard about it not good, is it trampy?’
During a protest in June 2020, Craig Napier said he was ‘stuck on the Walsgrave Road behind around 50 now’, adding: ‘The f***ing little s**gs keep lying down on the road but the gaffer won’t let us get out and baton them.’
His daughter wrote back: ‘Drive over them xxx.’
The misconduct hearing panel’s report said: ‘[They] grossly undermine public confidence, [and] bring discredit upon West Midlands Police as they completely disrespected colleagues, victims and the public alike, in a way which was highly offensive and patently grounded in prejudice.
‘They knowingly and consciously decided to communicate in such a repulsive manner which demonstrates a palpable level of disrespect for difference and protected characteristics.
‘On the balance of probability, the level of hostility they demonstrated in their communications was grossly offensive.’
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