Detective guilty over obscenities

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A Metropolitan Police detective who chanted obscene football songs on a train with a group of Bristol City fans is facing disciplinary proceedings.

James Coleman, 27, was on the way to a match between City and Charlton.

City of London Commissioner Mike Bowron, who was on the train, asked the group to tone down their language but was greeted with further abuse.

Appearing before Westminster magistrates, Coleman pleaded guilty to disorderly behaviour.

CCTV footage

He was fined £300 and ordered to pay £100 costs and is currently on restricted duties.

Mr Bowron reported the incident, in October last year, to British Transport Police who began an investigation.

CCTV images from the 1834 BST Charing Cross-to-Dartford train were circulated in Bristol and in London.

It led to Coleman, a detective constable serving in Hounslow, west London, being identified.

A second man Dean Rogers, 39, of Lawrence Weston, Bristol, also pleaded guilty to a public order offence and was given a conditional discharge and a £50 fine.