Sam Kerr and his partner Kristie Mewis remember the racial bias of the police after a ‘very scary’ incident with London Taxi Driver

Chelsea striker’s partner Sam Kerr accused the “Gaslighting” police after a “very scary” incident in which the couple states that they were taken “as hostages” by a taxi driver.

West Ham’s midfielder, Kristie Mewis, 33, gave evidence at the Kingston Crown Court on Thursday, where Kerr is in trial for causing racially aggravated harassment to the policeman Stephen Lovell during an incident in southwest London in the First hours of January 30, 2023.

He alleges that Kerr, 31, and his partner had been drinking when they were taken to the Twickenham police station by a taxi driver who complained that they had refused to pay the cleaning costs after one of them was sick and that one of them broke the rear window of the vehicle.

Speaking from the witness post on Thursday, Mewis, who is waiting for a baby with Kerr, broke in tears when he remembered: “It was like nothing he has not experienced.” He had never driven a car so fast before. I immediately felt fear for my life.

“I felt out of control and, as if someone else, I had control over me and that obviously was very afraid … I didn’t know if it was a kidnapping or if we were going to block.

“All the horrible things you think of your head; I didn’t know if that was going to happen. “

Previously, the couple was “trapped” in the back of the taxi and that they had tried to open the doors and windows several times, but remained blocked.

She also said that “everything was going through my mind about being in a car with a stranger that I consider dangerous.”

“There was no reasoning with him. It was his way or nothing. “

During the interrogation, the prosecutors asked Mewis if he knew that the taxi driver had claimed that he was taking the couple to the Twickenham police station after calling emergency services about them.

She replied “no” and added: “I don’t know why you would drive that recklessly if you were taking us to a police station … Why was I crazy? I don’t understand that part.”

When Kerr’s defense lawyer asked him how the police treated the couple after the incident, Mewis said: “PC Lovell was immediately derogatory. I wasn’t believing what we were saying.

“We were saying that they had taken us against our will, we couldn’t go out and (the driver) was driving like crazy … he was derogatory in a way in which he did not want it to be true.

“In my opinion, (the police) tried to change the story and turn it into something that was not.

“He felt a bit like gas lighting … The story (they) repeated back was different or were manipulating it again.”

West Ham’s midfielder also said that Kerr was “speaking his truth” when he called a “stupid and white” police officer.

When asked about the supposedly “abusive and insulting” behavior of his partner to Lovell, Mewis said: “I think he was telling his truth about how he felt.

“Subconsciously he felt that he was being treated differently. I’ve seen Sam be treated differently. “

When prosecutors asked him that they clarify what he meant with “his truth,” Mewis said: “I think it has been treated differently and that it has been spoken differently throughout their lives and I think I was feeling the same as it has sense before and the things I have seen.

The court previously listened to Wednesday that Kerr had told the police “This is a racial thing of fucked” and accused the police, particularly Lovell, treated it “different from what they perceived as the color of my skin.”

When asked if he noticed a difference between the way the police treated her and Kerr, Mewis said: “Yes. PC Lovell was more sarcastic and shorter with Sam. I didn’t believe what she was saying and (she was) derogatory with her. “