Lying coppers given final warning after getting embroiled in parking row with their neighbour

Two lying police officers have been given a final warning after they became embroiled in a bitter parking row with a neighbour. PS Samantha Hague and PC Christopher Bowker were 'forced to the end of their tether' during the long-running dispute over a parking space outside their home, an investigation found.

A GMP disciplinary panel ruled the officers, who were in a relationship and lived together, lied in an attempt to have the neighbour's car towed away by colleagues.

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The hearing held last month reached a finding of gross misconduct against both PS Hague and PC Bowker. The officers had returned home from a night out shortly after midnight on January 18, 2020, when they discovered the neighbour's Volkswagen Golf 'intentionally obstructing' a bay allocated to PS Hague.

While she manoeuvred her Mini into the parking space 'with great difficulty', PC Bowker phoned the police. He told the operator that he and his partner needed to get out shortly to go to work, and asked for assistance in removing the car, belonging to a man named as Mr Greenwood. When asked if he knew who owned the Golf, he lied and he said he did not.

Hours later, PS Hague dialled 999 to report that the Golf was still blocking her car in. She said she had not been able to get to work, so had to get a lift instead. Following the report, the neighbour's car was towed away. In evidence, PS Hague said she made the call before leaving home, at a time when she intended to get a lift. She said she then changed her mind and took PC Bowker’s car to work.

But a police disciplinary panel found she had lied 'in order to exaggerate the difficulty' caused by the