 A serving Metropolitan Police officer sent such horrendously racist messages about his ex's new partner that a judge jailed him. Thomas Phillips, 34, had dated partner Samantha Ryan from 2017 to 2021, before they continued to live together at a house they had bought. Samantha had begun seeing Danny Gobin, also a police officer, whose mum is Irish and dad is Mauritian. On April 8 of that year, Phillips messaged Ms Ryan on WhatsApp saying 'he is black, you are a ginger with a nice arse, he is genetically drawn to you'. On April 20 he referred to her boyfriend as a 'mongrel spade' in a message and used the n-word to describe him in another text. On May 1 Phillips asked Ms Ryan if she would have 'little afro babies with big noses', and the court heard eight days later he suggested her new partner was a thief because 'he is black'. Mr Gobin said he had become an officer out of revulsion at the racism that he and his family experienced. Phillips covered his face for hearings at Westminster Magistrates' Court (Picture: PA) He told Westminster Magistrates' Court Phillips' comments made him feel 'sick' and 'disgusted'. He added that the 'stress and anxiety' the messages caused him had been 'immense' and that he had needed to take time off work at one point. When Phillips was interviewed by police last year, he denied that he sent the texts and tried to suggest Ms Ryan had written them on his phone and sent them to herself to frame him. But he ended up pleading guilty to five counts of sending an offensive, indecent, obscene or menacing message contrary to the Communications Act 2003 in July. Prosecutor Louise Oakley said the exchanges amounted to a 'campaign' which showed 'determined hostility based on race'. She added: 'He describes deliberately sending them to be hurtful. 'The defendant was a serving police officer at the time of the offending and in our submission he has under){kind=link}
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A serving Metropolitan Police officer sent such horrendously racist messages about his ex’s new partner that a judge jailed him.
Thomas Phillips, 34, had dated partner Samantha Ryan from 2017 to 2021, before they continued to live together at a house they had bought.
Samantha had begun seeing Danny Gobin, also a police officer, whose mum is Irish and dad is Mauritian.
On April 8 of that year, Phillips messaged Ms Ryan on WhatsApp saying ‘he is black, you are a ginger with a nice arse, he is genetically drawn to you’.