Kristie Mewis tells court Sam Kerr was 'speaking her truth' in comments to police officer
United States international Kristie Mewis told a court on Thursday that her fiancee Sam Kerr was “speaking her truth in how she was feeling” when she called a police officer “stupid and white”. Kerr, one of women’s football’s most decorated players, is charged with causing racially aggravated harassment to PC Stephen Lovell during the incident inside a police station in the early hours of January 30, 2023. That followed a night out Kerr had been on with Mewis. At the end of the evening, they hailed a black cab on Oxford Street and headed to Kerr’s home in Richmond. The taxi...
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