Met officers in Couzens group joked about assaulting women, court told

Prosecutor reads out messages allegedly shared by three defendants in WhatsApp chat in 2019

Metropolitan police officers accused of sharing grossly offensive" messages in a WhatsApp group that included Wayne Couzens joked about beating and sexually assaulting women, raping a colleague and Tasering children, a court has heard.

PC Jonathon Cobban, 35, PC William Neville, 33, and Joel Borders, 45, a former officer, listened from the dock as comments they allegedly made were read out by the prosecution at Westminster magistrates court.