Sam Kerr trial: explosive new police video shown at Kingston Crown Court
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WARNING: This article includes language that some readers may find offensive
An explosive new video of Sam Kerr's heated exchange with PC Stephen Lovell was shown at Kingston Crown Court yesterday, Thursday 6 February.
The footage shows the Matildas captain launching into an ugly rant with the officer after he was called to an incident involving Kerr and her fiancé Kristie Mewis in Twickenham on 30 January 2023.
Kerr is charged with alleged racially aggravated assault against PC Lovell.
On a dramatic day inside the court, news.com.au writes, "Kerr's fiancé Kristie Mewis broke down in tears while Kerr also told the court she did not use "whiteness as an insult".
According to the Australian news site, Mewis, 33, took to the stand on Thursday, accusing the police of "gaslighting" the couple and claimed she felt she was being "kidnapped" and "taken hostage" by a taxi driver.
It writes: "One of the most startling moments of the trial came when new footage of Kerr's exchange with police showed the Chelsea striker calling officer Stephen Lovell "irrelevant" on the night she is alleged to have called the police constable "f***ing stupid and white"."
The footage shows the 31-year-old footballer saying: "I will have the best lawyers, don't you f***ing worry. Because I would never f***ing say no to paying.
"Listen to the recording. Listen to the recording. No, that's f***ing bulls*** because he's a f***ing liar. That's bulls***.
"He's a f***ing liar and they're listening to some f***ing black taxi man — a black cab or whatever they're called, white taxi man, or whatever they're called — over us two women.
"That's a f***ing lie. I would pay whatever. That's a lie. Why are you listening to a taxi cab over us two women."
She went on to say: "I'm going to f***ing call my lawyer. I'm over these c**ts."
After being told by Lovell that calling a lawyer would be "irrelevant right now", Kerr responded: "No. I'm calling my f***ing lawyer. Because this is a f***ing racial f***ing thing.
"Because you are not letting me go because you are believing that guy out the front over 50 pounds?"
The footage then shows PC Lovell telling Kerr: "You need to calm yourself down little missy."
To which Kerr responded that she and Mewis did not "give a f***" about paying the costs to have the taxi cleaned.
However, later in the same video, Kerr is heard saying: "I'm not paying for f***ing some f***ing dodgy c**ts window."
Footage shown earlier in the trial also captured the moment Kerr showed Lovell the contents of her bank account "as if to say 'look, I could easily afford to pay for any damage to the taxi'."
According news.com.au, the cab driver has claimed they had refused to pay clean-up costs after one of the women vomited, and one of the two then smashed the cab's back window.
The news site writes: "Taking the stand for the first time, a tearful Mewis said the cab fracas was "like nothing I've experienced".
""I've never driven a car that fast before. I immediately felt fear for my life," the UK Press Association news agency reported her as saying.
""That was obviously very scary … I didn't know if it was a kidnapping or if we were going to crash".
"Mewis said she deemed the tax driver to be "dangerous" and there was "no reasoning with him".
"When the pair were dropped at the police station by the taxi, Mewis said Officer Lovell was "immediately dismissive".
""We were saying we had been taken against our will; we couldn't get out.
""He wasn't believing what we were saying," she said.
""In my opinion, (the police) were trying to change the story and make it into something it wasn't.
""It felt a little bit like gaslighting … the story (they) repeated back was different, or they were manipulating it back onto us.""
Mewis is pregnant, and it was revealed in court on Wednesday, 5 February, that the couple are expecting a boy.
The trial is expected to end today.
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