By IANS
London : A woman police constable of Indian origin in London may face a jail term as she was found lying that her Metropolitan Police identity-card and mobile phone were stolen after she was mugged last year.
A judge of a court here told Davinder Gill, 30, that he was granting her bail but said all options including custody would be considered. The court Thursday adjourned the case till Oct 9 for a pre-sentence report.
To cover up the fact that she had lost her police warrant card, Gill had told police that she had been shoved to the ground and robbed of her handbag by a group of people last April when she finished her shift at Peckham police station in South London and headed for a police leaving party, Daily Mail reported.
A warrant card is an officer’s main means of identification and must be carried by officers whether in uniform or plain clothes.
The fake story meant her insurance company gave her a better model of phone worth 150 pounds.
Police began to smell a rat after they found her leather bag at the bar O’Neill’s – still containing the phone.
In court, however, Gill denied she made up the mugging to cover up the loss of her Metropolitan Police warrant card.
She said: “I’d lost my warrant card on another occasion and I reported it through the correct procedure. I genuinely believed I had my bag stolen on the way home.”
Earlier this month, Gill, who now lives in Chessington, Surrey, pleaded guilty to charges of obtaining property by deception in 2005 and 2006, and one count of attempting to obtain property by deception, in 2004.