Chelsea striker Samantha Kerr told Metropolitan police officers she and her footballer partner broke the rear window of a taxi because they felt “trapped and very scared” after the driver refused to let them out, a jury has heard.
The Australian football star, 31, is on trial charged with causing racially aggravated harassment to Metropolitan Police officer Stephen Lovell during an incident in south-west London, in the early hours of January 30 2023.
Prosecutor Bill Emlyn Jones KC told a Kingston Crown Court jury that Kerr and her partner, fellow footballer Kristie Mewis, had been out drinking when they were driven to Twickenham Police Station by a taxi driver who complained the passengers refused to pay clean-up costs after one of them was sick and that one of them had smashed the vehicle’s rear window.