Devon officer tells court he shared George Floyd meme for 'cheap laugh'

Geraint Jones is on trial accused of sending a grossly offensive image to police colleagues

A British police sergeant sent a grossly offensive" doctored image of George Floyd's arrest to fellow officers for a cheap laugh", a court has been told.

Geraint Jones, 47, a custody sergeant in Torquay, shared the meme - in which the police officer who arrested Floyd was replaced with a naked black man - with colleagues at Devon and Cornwall police less than a week after Floyd's death in May last year.