Sam Kerr gives evidence in a racially aggravated trial and denies harassing the British police officer

The Australian soccer star, Sam Kerr, told a London court that he called a “stupid and white” police officer “because he felt that a person of power was treated differently due to the color of the skin. harass it.

Later, under intense interrogation, the prosecutor questioned his memory of the incident with the police and the tripx trip before, saying that he was “starting” because he was drunk.

Mrs. Kerr appealed to the witness box for the first time in her high profile trial, where she faces a position of racially aggravated harassment of the Metropolitan Police police (PC) Stephen Lovell.

He allegedly harassed the officer in the middle of a dispute on a taxi trip in London in 2023. He declared himself innocent of the position last year.

In his evidence given in Kingson-on-Thames Crown Court on Wednesday, he said he was “terrified” for her life during the trip, stating that she and her partner Kristie Mewis were being retained “against our will.”

Mrs. Kerr is Captain of Matildas and a Chelsea Football Club front, based in London, in the United Kingdom female super league.

Kerr explains his ‘stupid and white’ words

Giving evidence for almost four hours, Mrs. Kerr was questioned about the language she used for PC Lovell and two other officers at the Twickenham Police Station that was recorded in a police force chamber.

The 30 -minute long interaction described as a “warm argument” by Mrs. Kerr, focused on the taxi trip and who would pay the damage to the broken window.

It is alleged that Mrs. Kerr would not pay the cleaning rate after being sick, but she denied not being willing to pay in court.

Then, the driver called the police, who advised him to lead the couple to the nearest police station, something that Mrs. Kerr said they did not tell him at that time.

In the video, both Mrs. Kerr and Mrs. Mewis tell the officers who repeatedly prayed to leave him out of the taxi, but that the driver did not allow it.

Both claim that they were arrested against their will and were scared of their lives.

Mrs. Mewis said she broke the window because she was scared before Mrs. Kerr crawled through her.

Charging…

They also tell the officer they called the police, but that they were hung, something to which PC Lovell responds by saying: “However, they would not do that, if they.”

Mrs. Kerr then called PC Lovell “F *** ING STUPID and WHITE.”

“What were they expressing or trying to express with that comment?” Asked Mrs. Kerr’s lawyer, Grace Forbes.

“I expressed badly in that video,” Kerr said.

“I think that if people in a position of power or someone with a privilege position do not understand or recognize that it is very dangerous and I think this happens worldwide, I have experienced it several times.”

The phone call made to the Police by Mrs. Kerr was played with the jury on Wednesday. He confirmed that police operators ended the call and tried to call it without success.

In the chamber worn by the body, you can listen to PC Lovell questioning Mrs. Kerr about why a taxi driver would take the people who was planning to “rape and kill” a police station, to which Mrs. Kerr responds Saying: “You are in” sick, you are honestly sick. “

“I thought it was making light of what had happened to us, it was almost an antagonizing comment,” he told the Court.

“Immediately after that exchange with PC Lovell, you say ‘you are literally a white privileged person,” said Forbes.

“Why did you use the words ‘White privilege’ there?” He asked his client.

“He has never experienced that or (he had to) think about what could happen to you like a woman.”

When asked if he had any hostility towards whites, he said: “No, absolutely not.”

He described herself as “Blanca-Anglo-India” for the Court and said there had been multiple occasions when he felt that he had been treated differently due to the color of his skin.

“At school I had experienced being in situations where teachers had instigated that I was the uprising or head of problems when we were clearly in a large environment of people,” he said.

“Also in a mall, if I am not dressed correctly, I have often followed the mall by the Security Guard or the staff member.”

Mrs. Forbes asked her client if there was any experience in Australia that made Mrs. Ker be distrustful of the acclaimed taxis.

“I lived in a state (Western Australian) where for 30 years there was a serial murderer who thought he was a taxi driver, that everyone talked not to enter taxis,” he replied.

The case, known as the ‘Claremont Killer’, was resolved in 2020, but was not a taxi driver.

Kerr’s interrogation begins

Last minute on Wednesday, local time, prosecutor William Emlyn Jones Kc began to interrogate Mrs. Kerr about her memory of the events of the night.

“When you leave the club and try an uber, and then you greet a taxi, it is fair to say that Mrs. Kerr, you were drunk,” said Emlyn Jones.

“Yes,” she replied.

“You were so drunk that you were sick,” he said.

“Yes,” he agreed.

“Do you think your drunken level could have had an impact on your perception in what was happening to you in the taxi?”

“No.”

“Let’s be clear about this: do you still think the taxi driver was kidnapping you?”

“Yeah.”

He questioned whether the new information shared at the trial had made her rethink the night.

“Now you know that it took you to a police station because the police had advised him to take you to a police station,” he said.

“There is a difference between what you know now and what you knew then.”

He asked if that new information made him reflect that “maybe at the time we are wrong.”

She said “no.”

She denied having resorted to something about the driver and rejected her suggestion that a conversation should have had about her was sick in the car.

Both PC Lim and the driver said the plastic divisor between the passenger and the front section of the cabin had been damaged.

Mrs. Kerr also denied it.

“What is happening in the taxi that makes its driver call his driver’s police and then follow his advice?” He asks.

“You two were starting in the back.”

“No,” she replied.

Kerr’s ‘very good’ memory claim questioned

When the prosecutor asked how good his memory was, Mrs. Kerr replied, “very good.”

“When asked less than 24 hours later, in the interview (a voluntary police) if you remember calling PC Lovell” F *** ING STUPID and WHITE “you had no memory,” he said.

“If you did not remember that it is fair to say that there are many things that you did not remember that night,” he added.

“It was a very distressing night for me that I was not scoring for the word by word,” Kerr replied.

He described the memory of Mrs. Ker’s event two years after “miraculous.”

Mrs. Kerr’s interrogation is expected to continue Thursday when the trial resumes.