Revealed: Sacked constable whose disturbing messages formed part of probe that exposed culture of racism and misogyny at the Met has conviction for threatening to murder female colleague
- James McLoughlin-Goodchild threatened to stab women and two other officers
- Convicted of sending offensive, indecent, obscene or menacing communication
- Remained under investigation for messages that formed part of watchdog probe
James McLoughlin-Goodchild, a PC at Charing Cross police station, threatened to stab the woman and two other officers if they came to arrest him
One of the police officers whose disturbing messages formed part of an inquiry into the culture of racism and misogyny in the Met threatened to murder a female colleague while under investigation for sexually harassing her.
James McLoughlin-Goodchild, a PC at Charing Cross police station, threatened to stab the woman and two other officers if they came to arrest him during a phone call with a sergeant to discuss an upcoming gross misconduct hearing.
A trial heard he said: ‘I will kill them, I will murder them if I see them, I know where they live and what cars they drive. If they come to my home and arrest me they are going to get stabbed. I will not go to prison alive.’
The officer was found guilty of sending an offensive, indecent, obscene or menacing communication after a trial at Hendon Magistrates Court in January 2019. He was handed a 12-month conditional discharge and an indefinite restraining order.
McLoughlin-Goodchild – who served at Charing Cross police station – was later sacked by the Met
McLoughlin-Goodchild was later sacked by the Met, but remained under investigation for a series of offensive messages that were the subject of an inquiry by the Independent Office of Police Conduct, The Times reported.
The watchdog found officers at Charing Cross had exchanged sickening messages about rape, ‘killing black children’, and ‘f****** gays’.
‘I’d happily rape you’: Vile WhatsApp exchanges between Charing Cross officers
WhatsApp conversation between two police officers:
o Officer 1: ‘And my bird won’t stop taking the p***. Swear to got [sic] I’m going to smack her’
o Officer 2: ‘Slap her one… say you didn’t’
o Officer 1: ‘I`ll f****** do it. She`s f***** off home.’
A separate WhatsApp conversation between two police officers:
o Officer 1: ‘I f****** need to take my bird out, won’t see her until next Saturday. Then I have to work. Promised to take her out the Friday after. Making it up to her from when I backhanded her’
o Officer 2: ‘Grab her by the p****’
o Officer 1: ‘You ever slapped your missus?’
o Officer 1: ‘It makes them love you more. Seriously since I did that she won’t leave me alone. Now I know why these daft c**** are getting murdered by their s****** boyfriends. Knock a bird about and she will love you. Human nature. They are biologically programmed to like that s***.’
o Officer 2: ‘Lmao’
o Officer 1: ‘I’m right though’
A further WhatsApp conversation between two police officers:
o Officer 1: ‘I had that massive fight with my bird because she found out I’d been out on the piss with this girl who’s a high class hooker a couple of weeks ago Hahahah’
o Officer 1: ‘Make friends with high class hookers’
o Officer 2: ‘I had one in Watford from adult work. Used to f*** her all the time’
o Officer 1: ‘Yes! Hahaha’
o Officer 2: ‘used just hang out and blast her on the sly’
o Officer 2: ‘when I was on roids and needed it every hour’
Messages sent by a male officer to a female officer:
o ‘I would happily rape you’
o ‘if I was single I would actually hate f*** you’
o ‘if I was single I would happily chloroform you’
Further messages sent about women, include:
o ‘Getting a woman in to bed is like spreading butter. It can be done with a bit of effort using a credit card, but it’s quicker and easier just to use a knife.’
o ‘F*** knows what she’s on about I just wanna sp*** on her’ (sent by an officer in reference to another police officer’s girlfriend).
o ‘Mate my Mrs is driving me mad – come and shag a baby into her it might shut her up bro .’
A male officer told a female colleague ‘I would happily rape you’ and ‘if I was single I would happily chloroform you’.
Another officer was known as ‘mcrapey raperson’ because of his reputation for ”harassing [women], getting on them, do you know what I mean being like, just a d***”.’
Home Secretary Priti Patel told the Commons Home Affairs Committee today that the problem was not isolated and there had been ‘too many instances where, in policing, we just see the most appalling behaviours’.
Asked by committee chairwoman Diana Johnson if she thinks police forces are ‘institutionally misogynistic’, Ms Patel said: ‘There are problems with the culture, and some aspects of the culture, within the Metropolitan Police.
‘I do think there are some very, very serious and significant matters that need, not just following up, but further investigation.
‘We’re not seeing one-off incidences. I think we should just be quite clear about that. We are not seeing one-off incidences, this is not isolated. We have seen now too, too many times, too many instances where, in policing, we just see the most appalling behaviours, the most appalling conduct.
‘I also think it shows a failure of leadership in some quarters.
‘So you’ve asked me the question about institutional misogyny within policing. There are cultural issues there. What we saw in the IOPC report absolutely points to, I’m not even going to say just misogynistic behaviours, I think it’s cultural and attitudinal.’
The Home Secretary said she has confidence in Metropolitan Police boss Dame Cressida Dick but ‘change is required’.
Ms Patel said: ‘I’ve always said that I’m confident in her and her work, but that also means that change is required.
‘There are lots of issues, it’s not straightforward with the Met, and there are lots of issues there where we need to see major, major significant improvements: culture, delivery, accountability and protecting the streets.’
Two inquiries are under way looking at the culture within the Met – one by Baroness Casey that was organised by the force itself, and a Home Office probe headed by Dame Elish Angiolini that is looking at the failures behind the rape and murder of Sarah Everard by a serving officer.
Shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper said the IOPC’s report had uncovered ‘truly appalling behaviour’ and urged the Home Office to address issues in policing.
She told the BBC’s Today programme: ‘Officers talking and joking about raping or beating their wives, and using homophobic insults and awful racism – you cannot ever tolerate this kind of abuse, racism or misogyny, it must have no place in policing and be rooted out.’
She called for action not just from the police, but also from the Home Office, saying there must be an overhaul of training and faster vetting of officers.
The IOPC published the messages after a series of nine investigations into the behaviour of Metropolitan Police officers based in a now disbanded Westminster team between 2016 and 2018, sparked by a later disproven claim that an officer had sex with a drunk person at a police station.
Fourteen officers were investigated by the watchdog, of whom two were found to have a case to answer for gross misconduct. One was sacked and another resigned before he would have been dismissed.
Nine remain serving officers, while another is working as a contractor in a staff role.
The report is just the latest scandal to hit crisis-prone Cressida Dick, and makes particularly chilling reading in light of the murder of Sarah Everard by serving Met officer Wayne Couzens – who himself was allegedly nicknamed as ‘the rapist’
IOPC regional director for London Sal Naseem said that the two accused of gross misconduct were the worst perpetrators, but could not confirm whether those still serving were responsible for any of the offensive comments published.
He told Good Morning Britain: ‘What I do know is that there were nine investigations here. The two officers who were sacked for gross misconduct were the worst perpetrators of some of these exchanges.’
In response to an urgent question about the report in the Commons, policing minister Kit Malthouse said the document ‘makes for extremely disturbing reading’ and that he ‘cannot begin to describe my horror’ at the revelations it contains.
He said he will look at a request by MP Dr Matthew Offord for a new offence to be created to make it illegal for anyone in a position of trust to try to have sexual contact with someone they have met through work.
The IOPC report included messages by an officer bragging about sleeping with a sex worker he had met while on duty.
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