Julian Bennett refused to provide a urine sample after claims that he had smoked cannabis while off-duty.
Julian Bennett, who served in the force from 1976, was cleared by a disciplinary panel of using the drug at home in late 2019.
After Ms Gomes reported Mr Bennett in July 2020, he was called in and, in the presence of an assistant commissioner, was asked to provide a sample.He offered to resign on the spot instead, and asked for a meeting with then-commissioner Dame Cressida Dick. The chairman also said that “if the goal of resignation was to avoid embarrassing” the Met this was “unlikely to be achieved”.Mr Khan said Mr Bennett’s behaviour was “deliberate and intentional, seeking a personal advantage or special treatment from the commissioner” and that he would have had a “unique insight” into what would have been a good reason to refuse a sample.
He added: “Overall, the panel finds Sheila Gomes’s account to be unpersuasive and lacking in cogency. Those claims were made by Hugo Pereria, who lived with the complainant Ms Gomes and Mr Bennett in late 2019, but the tribunal was told he “always lied” before the panel threw out the claims.His solicitors said in a statement: “The panel found that Cdr Bennett did not take any drugs, cannabis or otherwise.
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