Australia’s all-time leading international goal scorer pleaded not guilty over the incident, which occurred in southwest London in 2023.
Australia women’s football captain Sam Kerr has gone on trial in a London court, accused of racially abusing a white police officer after a drunken dispute with a cab driver.
The star forward, who plays for Chelsea in the Women’s Super League, told the officer Stephen Lovell: “You guys are f****** stupid and white.”
Kerr, who has Indian ancestry, accepts saying those words but has pleaded not guilty to one count of racially aggravated harassment. Her lawyer argued she was commenting on power and privilege.
The 31-year-old sat in the dock on Monday at Kingston Crown Court as prosecutor Bill Emlyn Jones told jurors that she and her partner, Kristie Mewis, who plays for West Ham United, called a taxi early on January 30, 2023, after a night out.
“Their cab journey did not go well,” Emlyn Jones said.
“The cabbie ended up phoning the police to complain about their behavior, reporting that they were trying to smash a window.”
The cab driver took them to a police station instead of Kerr’s home, after which she commented on Lovell’s ethnicity, Emlyn Jones said.
