Paul Page And The Buckingham Palace Porn Police

PAUL Page, a former police Royalty Protection officer, faces jail for masterminding a £3 million spread-betting and property scam.

Paul Page, 38, conned colleagues, friends and others out of life savings, redundancy cash, pension pay-outs, retirement money and loans.

But the case is best known for the asides about goings on among the coppers in the Palace:

Page briefed his barrister John Cooper - he later withdrew from the case leaving the defendant to represent himself - about a long list of “gross breaches of duty” said to have been common practice.

They emerged as the barrister was cross-examining Sergeant Adam McGregor.

The officer, another ex-Royalty Protection member who lost £125 000 to the fraudster, admitted he had taken part in the throne-sitting antics.

It was just “something to tell the grandkids“, he insisted.

However, he denied indulging in comical poses for the camera.

He was also questioned about other behavioural no-nos:

* Armed officers regularly falling asleep on duty.

* Policemen allowing “uninvited and unvetted” guests into royal garden parties and providing car parking in palace grounds to unauthorised visitors.

* A drunk policeman being given a firearm.

* Others routinely sleeping off hangovers in private palace rooms.

* Hardcore pornography and illegal steroid drugs being sold in police locker rooms at both Buckingham and St James’s palaces.

* Marked police cars ferrying gifts and large sums of cash made from spread betting.

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Posted: 17th, July 2009 | In: Media Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed: RSS 2.0 | TrackBack | Permalink