Two Metropolitan Police officers are due to go on trial on misconduct charges following an incident while on a Cricket tournament in Scilly.
Two off-duty officers are alleged to have urinated in the ‘Mermaid’ public house on St. Mary’s on a Sunday evening in June 1999. The two officers were part of a cricket team on tour in the Islands at the time. The Police, who were staying on St. Mary’s, had just returned from playing St. Agnes that afternoon.
Eye witnesses are reported to have commented on how rowdy they had become following a day of drinking. The matter was then brought to Devon and Cornwall Police who are playing a key role in the current proceeding. Witnesses from The Islands have been summoned to attend the Hearing which is due to take place at the start of the new year.