![]() ![]() Ms Gomes said she personally witnessed Mr Bennett and Mr Pereira smoking drugs every day, but only heard about the officer taking hallucinogenic substances through Mr Pereira. The exchanges were read to the panel and are relied on by the Metropolitan Police as contemporaneous evidence of Mr Bennett’s alleged drug-taking. The hearing was told that Ms Gomes shared her concerns over the drug-taking in WhatsApp messages with her friend, Mario Sariava. She told the panel Mr Bennett and Mr Pereira smoked marijuana together and alleged that it was the officer who purchased the drugs. She said she had initially believed he was a lawyer and only discovered he was a senior police officer after moving out. Giving evidence to a police disciplinary hearing on Monday in Palestra House in Southwark, London, Ms Gomes explained how she met Mr Bennett through her friend, Hugo Pereira, who lived with him at the time. The Portuguese national, who lived with Mr Bennett for two months, said he was so “erratic and controlling” that she believed he was running a criminal enterprise. Sheila Gomes said the property was often so full of smoke that it resembled an “Amsterdam coffee shop”. ![]() A senior Metropolitan Police officer who drew up Scotland Yard’s anti-drug strategy smoked so much marijuana his flatmate thought he was a dealer, a misconduct panel has been told.Ĭdr Julian Bennett used the drug every morning before work and also took LSD and magic mushrooms, according to a nurse who rented a room from him in 2019. ![]()
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