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highly-decorated police officer has misplaced her attraction towards her conviction for having a toddler abuse video on her cellphone.
Her trial on the Outdated Bailey heard that Williams obtained the video by way of WhatsApp from her older sister Jennifer Hodge, 57, who had initially been despatched the clip by her long-term boyfriend, 63-year-old Dido Massivi.
Williams – who has since been sacked with out discover by the Metropolitan Police for “gross misconduct” – appealed towards each her conviction and her sentence at a listening to on the Court docket of Enchantment on Thursday.
She attended the Royal Courts of Justice in London on Thursday morning for her attraction, as did Hodge and Massivi who additionally difficult their convictions.
On the conclusion of the listening to, Dame Victoria Sharp, sitting with Mr Justice Sweeney and Mrs Justice Ellenbogen, refused all the appeals.
The choose stated: “The functions made on behalf of all three appellants on this case are refused for causes which can be handed down later.”
Williams’ barrister Anesta Weekes QC earlier instructed the courtroom there was “not even a suggestion” that her shopper had watched the 54-second video and that she was “the one one” of the recipients who had not watched it.
She stated the case towards Williams at trial was that “there was a transparent picture and also you have been taking a look at a thumbnail for some 12 seconds, so you could have seen that indecent picture”.
Ms Weekes instructed the courtroom that skilled proof recommended that “the picture had been sufficiently downloaded and the consultants stated ‘it’s our view that the picture would have been clear’”.
However Ms Weekes stated that the consultants weren’t capable of correctly study Williams’ cellphone, including: “There is a component of unfairness right here if you don’t even have the very cellphone and you can not show on the cellphone … how clear it (the thumbnail) can be.”
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Richard Wright QC, for the Crown, stated: “The consultants have been plainly not giving proof about what Ms Williams did see.
“They have been giving proof about what was current on her cellphone to be seen and that was the central subject within the case and one which required skilled proof to reconstruct the thumbnail, its readability, its dimension and the way it will have appeared within the absence of the unique thumbnail.”
On the trial, the Outdated Bailey heard that Williams had an exemplary disciplinary document and was extremely regarded for her work each within the aftermath of Grenfell and at successive Notting Hill Carnivals.
She was awarded the Queen’s Police Medal for distinguished service in 2003.
Williams confronted a second cost, of corrupt or improper train of police powers and privilege by failing to inform officers concerning the video, however was discovered not responsible of this cost.
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Hodge, of Brent in north-west London, was discovered responsible of distributing an indecent picture of a kid, actions she instructed the courtroom have been meant to search out the abuser accountable and was sentenced to 100 hours of group service.
Massivi, additionally of Brent, was convicted of two counts of distributing an indecent {photograph} of a kid, and one depend of possessing an excessive pornographic picture portraying an individual having intercourse with a horse.
He was handed an 18-month sentence for every offence to run concurrently and suspended for 2 years. He was additionally ordered to hold out 200 hours of group service.
