Met police officer sacked for allegedly spanking 12-year-old girl’s bare bottom

PC Ross Benson accused of smacking the girl, who was known to him, multiple times in 2018

A Metropolitan police officer has been sacked and banned from policing after allegedly spanking a 12-year-old girl's bare bottom.

PC Ross Benson, of the North West Basic Command Unit, was accused of smacking the girl several times between April and August 2018 when she was aged 12 to 13, and there was an alleged sexual element to his behaviour.