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GMP officer appears in court charged with dangerous driving after teenager left with life-changing injuries

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A Greater Manchester Police officer has appeared in court after a teenage boy was left with life-changing injuries. Sarah De Meulemeester, 25, a serving police officer, has been charged with dangerous driving following a crash in the Adswood area of Stockport on Boxing Day 2020.

Khia Whitehead, who is now aged 18 but was 16 at the time, suffered serious injuries and spent months in hospital after being hit by a police car on Garners Lane. READ MORE: Men on bike 'leave hand grenade in front of house' as bomb squad scrambled Ms Meulemeester, who was driving the vehicle, denied causing serious injury to Mr Whitehead by driving a Peugeot 308 dangerously, as she appeared in the dock at Liverpool Crown Court.

Relatives of Mr Whitehead were in the public gallery for the short hearing. The officer, of Mill Court, Chinley in the High Peak area of Derbyshire, was further remanded on bail by the city’s top judge Andrew Menary, KC, the Recorder of Liverpool to await her trial, expected to last five days, beginning on April 17 next year.

The court heard that she is still working as a police constable but on restricted duties. Read more of today's top stories here READ NEXT:

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