Detective constable admitted writing explicit stories during work hours and was dismissed for gross misconduct after a Metropolitan Police hearing found the content deeply offensive

A police officer who penned erotic stories on his work laptop due to having "not enough to do" has been given the boot.

Detective constable Thomas Sewell was found to have used his downtime at work to write a first-person narrative filled with "misogynistic, aggressive and sexual language", according to a Metropolitan Police misconduct hearing.

The chair of the misconduct hearing labelled the officer's writing as "deeply offensive". DC Sewell confessed to the allegation, but insisted that he had been writing stories for many years as a means of dealing with a traumatic incident early in his career.

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