A jury retired to consider its verdicts on Monday in the trial of Australia and Chelsea forward Sam Kerr, who denies a charge of causing racially aggravated harassment.
The 31-year-old called police constable Stephen Lovell “stupid and white” during an incident in south-west London on Jan. 30, 2023.
It is alleged that Kerr and her partner, United States and West Ham midfielder Kristie Mewis, had been out drinking when they were driven to a police station by a taxi driver, who complained that they refused to pay clean-up costs after one of them was sick, and that one of them smashed the vehicle’s rear window.
At the police station, Kerr is alleged to have become insulting toward Lovell. Kerr has accepted calling him “stupid and white” during a heated exchange but during the trial at Kingston Crown Court denied that they amount to the charge.
Kerr denied using…
