Kerr was talking on the fourth day of the trial at Kingston Crown Court docket, following an incident in London on January 30, 2023.
It’s alleged that Kerr and her accomplice, West Ham midfielder Kristie Mewis, had been out consuming after they have been pushed to the police station by a taxi driver, who complained that they refused to pay clean-up prices after one among them was sick, and that one among them smashed the car’s rear window.
Kerr, who stated she feared for her life as she felt “trapped” in the course of the taxi trip, is alleged to have change into abusive and insulting towards police constable Stephen Lovell on the police station, calling him “silly and white”.
Kerr has accepted making the feedback however denies that they quantity to the cost.
Requested by prosecutors if she was utilizing Lovell’s “whiteness as an insult” in the course of the heated alternate with him on the police station, Kerr replied: “No, that is not what I meant.”
Kerr, who identifies as a white Anglo-Indian, added: “I believed it was him utilizing his energy and privilege over me as a result of he was accusing me of being one thing I am not … I used to be making an attempt to precise that as a result of energy and privilege that they had, they might by no means have to grasp what we had simply gone by way of, and the worry we have been having for our lives.”
Requested if she was saying Lovell was “silly as a result of he was white,” Kerr stated: “No.”
The court docket beforehand heard that Kerr instructed police “it is a racial … factor.” When requested about these feedback, Kerr stated: “I believed (they) have been treating me in a different way due to what they perceived to be the colour of my pores and skin — significantly PC Lovell’s habits.”
She added: “(It was) the best way he was responding to me, reducing me off, names he was calling me, being dismissive.”
Kerr additionally claimed her notion was formed by how officers have been treating her in a different way to Mewis.
