Metropolitan police officer sacked for using a racial slur against a suspect
A police constable who was secretly recorded using a racial slur against a young black man under arrest in front of several colleagues has been sacked.
Metropolitan police constable Alex MacFarlane was in the back of a police van in August 2011 when he said to the arrested man, Mauro Demetrio, 21: "The problem with you is that you will always be a nigger." Demetrio recorded the incident in Newham on his mobile phone.