Sam Kerr: Chelsea footballer to stand trial for alleged racially aggravated harassment | UK News
The striker pleaded not responsible to utilizing insulting, threatening or abusive phrases that brought about alarm or misery to a police officer in London on 30 January.
By Niamh Lynch, News reporter @niamhielynch
Chelsea and Australia footballer Sam Kerr is ready to stand trial subsequent 12 months for alleged racially aggravated harassment of a police officer in London.
The striker appeared in court docket earlier after being charged with utilizing insulting, threatening or abusive phrases that brought about alarm or misery to a police officer throughout an incident in Twickenham, southwest London on 30 January.
A Metropolitan Police spokesperson stated the incident concerned an officer who was responding to a criticism a couple of taxi fare.
Ms Kerr, 30, attended the listening to at Kingston upon Thames Crown Court through videolink and pleaded not responsible.
A four-day trial is now anticipated to happen subsequent February.
Ms Kerr has captained the Australia ladies’s nationwide crew since 2019 and scored their solely objective in final 12 months’s World Cup semi-final towards England.
She is Australia’s all-time main scorer with 69 targets and joined Chelsea in 2020.
The striker has helped the London membership win the final 4 Women’s Super League titles in addition to the FA Cup thrice.
She is 2 months right into a prolonged interval on the sidelines after sustaining an anterior cruciate ligament harm throughout the Blues’ warm-weather coaching camp in Morocco.
Sky News has contacted Chelsea FC for remark.
