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Williams’s Discrimination Claim Against Met Opens at Employment Tribunal

She says senior Met leaders ran a six-year campaign of racial and sexual bias to force her resignation

Robyn Williams said she was the Met’s “most successful and award-winning black female officer and they destroyed me”
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Overview

  • An employment tribunal began this week in London to assess whether the Metropolitan Police orchestrated a targeted campaign against Robyn Williams
  • Williams has described the force’s leadership as driven by a “white female clique” backed by “white male pitbulls” during her tribunal testimony
  • The Metropolitan Police denies all allegations and plans to call 16 witnesses, including current and former officers, to defend its actions
  • Williams was the only one of 17 recipients of the WhatsApp child abuse video to face charges and in 2019 was convicted and given 200 hours of unpaid work despite the judge finding no sexual intent
  • She was dismissed in 2020 but reinstated by the Police Appeals Tribunal; she resigned in March 2024 citing PTSD and anxiety and is now seeking compensation for discrimination and harassment