PC resigns and accepts misconduct for sex texts

A BRISTOL police officer who told a married woman he had never met that he wanted to choke her and beat her with his baton during sex in a string of lewd social media messages, has been cleared of gross misconduct.

- ADAM POSTANS Local Democracy Reporter

PC George Thompson, who admitted the texts made him look like a “heinous thug”, was found to have committed the lesser offence of misconduct, which he accepted.

But because he resigned from Avon & Somerset Police the day before his disciplinary tribunal and is now a former officer, no further action can be taken against him.

PC Thompson, based at Broadbury Road police station in Knowle West, sent the woman, Ms A, who cannot be named for legal reasons, sexually explicit texts, photos and videos on SnapChat, the hearing was told yesterday. She told him she did not want to receive those because she was married and not interested.

But the pair continued to exchange more than 1,100 messages over just 10 days in April 2024 until her husband found out and complained to the constabulary.