THE USUAL SUSPECTS #6
A Round-Up of Crime & Corruption
In this Spring election round up of The Usual Suspects, we dispense with the lube to penetrate Metropolitan police regulation of London’s multi-billion pound world of clubs and vice, before probing corruption concerns involving its Flying Squad and another force.
This dispatch starts with some surprising developments in the Soho police corruption case of a bent licensing sergeant and two fugitives.
The Met claims to have learned lessons from this corruption scandal and cleaned up licensing.
So why was another sergeant put in charge of licensing strip clubs in Newham, when he’d been found guilty of gross misconduct for not protecting female officers from an angry and perverted male colleague?
Meanwhile, over in central London, a former professional footballer who hosted parties for boxer Anthony Joshua and rapper Chris Brown has accused his Albanian business partner of stealing his nightclub while Camden licensing cops looked on.
On its third anniversary, The Upsetter returns to an investigation that launched this newsletter in April 2021. The Autistic Detective was a multi-layered tale about a cop partial to a prostitute who found himself under investigation for running a sugar daddy site.
The autistic detective maintains that the prosecution was retaliation for blowing the whistle on Flying Squad corruption around informants. The latest news from the land of wigs and gowns suggests his allegations are set to cause serious embarrassment for the Sweeney and its friends in the CPS.
The final offering is a strange ‘only in Britain’ story of a diamond miner who became a candidate in the recent local elections in order to get an audience with the chief constable of the police force where he lives so he could report corruption in the ranks!
Eyes down.