Kennedy Lungu, An ex-officer who remarked that a domestic violence victim “should have been a better wife” and made jokes about raping a female coworker has been permanently prohibited from serving in the police force.
Former PC Kennedy Lungu underwent a misconduct hearing at the Thames Valley Police headquarters in Kidlington on October 28.
He was charged with a series of sexual and inappropriate remarks directed at women during his training in Sulhamstead, West Berkshire.
This included saying that “no does not really mean no” during a conversation about consent around sex.
Mr Lungu also had a professional footballer recently acquitted of rape set as his phone screen saver, and called him his ‘hero’.
Mr Lungu did no attend the hearing, but was banned from serving in the police force for life.
The panel said it could find no mitigating factors for Mr Lungu’s behaviour “other than noting that he was very early in his career”.
The ex-trainee told a fellow female trainee to hurry up, and when asked what he would do if she would not, joked he would rape her.
While watching a video about domestic abuse, Mr Lungu made a comment to the effect that the “woman in question deserved it”.
The panel said a colleague recalled “many times arriving in class and former officer Lungu talking about sex and talking at lunch about sex”.
His behaviour was found to have been “intentional, deliberate, targeted and planned’, amounting to ‘abuse of women and girls”.
The panel ruled that he would have been sacked from the force if he had not already resigned prior to proceedings.
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