Katie Price says she’s “over the moon” after eight Met Officers were charged with gross misconduct over offensive messages shared in a WhatsApp group about her son, Harvey Price.
The former glamour model spoke to 5 News presenter Dan Walker in her first TV interview since the news on Thursday (April 13).
Sitting with Harvey by her side, when Dan asked Katie what she had to say to the charged police officers, she said: “I hope they feel ashamed. I hope they’re embarrassed.
READ MORE: Eight police officers found guilty after mocking Katie Price’s son Harvey on WhatsApp
“I hope they’re embarrassed to know what their family are going through and I hope all their names and their mug shots come out because I would like to see their faces and they should be named and shamed.”
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She continued: “And hopefully they will never serve in the police force again, and if they ever get any other job that it goes on their CV because I’ll tell you what, there won’t be a lot of people who want to employ them after this.
“Would you want to employ someone when you know they do stuff like this? Because I know I wouldn’t.
“So it will affect them for the rest of their life. And I hope it does because they deserve that, they’re disgusting.”
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Responding to the news, mother of five Katie said she was “absolutely over the moon”
She said: “It’s about time justice has been done. Not only that they are professionals that we trust, that we should trust who have done this and now an example is going to be put out there and something is going to be done.
“What I’ve actually seen and read what these police officers have said it’s beyond what you could ever imagine how evil and how spiteful people can actually be, and how they even think it’s funny.
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It’s actually disgusting.Harvey doesn’t deserve this, no one does.”
When asked by mum Katie how it made him feel when people were horrible to him, Harvey, 20, said: “Angry and sad”.
Katie said she was in two minds whether to take Harvey to court for their sentencing.
The TV star explained: “I don’t know whether to turn up to the court with Harvey.
(Image: Katie Price/Instagram)
“Number one so the police officers can face Harvey and see how innocent he is, but obviously I don’t want to use Harvey as a bit of bait because it’s not also fair on Harvey, but its like I want them to see what they’ve done like, to someone like Harvey, how innocent he is. Why did he deserve that? You know? I’m in two minds what to do.”
Harvey is autistic and lives with Prader–Willi syndrome.
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Seven men and one woman were found to have sent sexist, racist, homophobic, transphobic, and disablist comments in a WhatsApp group called “Secret Squirrel S***” between May 17, 2016, and June 26, 2018.
The hearing concerned former sergeant Luke Thomas, former acting sergeant Luke Allen, former Pc Kelsey Buchan, former PC Carlo Francisco, former PC Lee South, former PC Darren Jenner, PC Glynn Rees, and Officer B, who has been granted anonymity.
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