A Scotland Yard detective who sexually harassed Des O’Connor’s daughter should have been sacked, a misconduct panel has ruled.
Former detective chief inspector James Mason was given a final written warning in October 2021 after calling Kristina O’Connor his ‘favourite Camden victim of crime’ and asking her on a date when she was injured during an attempted robbery a decade earlier.
Mason, 47, had committed gross misconduct by ‘deliberately and repeatedly abusing his position for a sexual purpose,’ the panel had found at the time.
But it was decided that dismissing or demoting him would have been ‘disproportionately harsh.’
The same panel reconvened this week and ruled that Mason, who resigned from the force in November 2022, should have been sacked, however.
