A police officer previously sacked and reinstated has now been barred for life after texting a junior female colleague to suggest they meet for sex on a beach.
Detective Sergeant Sebastian Day, 39, was kicked out of Sussex Police for gross misconduct in 2012 after allegedly kicking a man in the head in Brighton during an arrest.
But he was cleared of assault by a court and reinstated as an officer after appealing to the Home Office. On Monday he appeared before a disciplinary panel for a second time after he sent a series of sexually lurid texts to a junior colleague.
He has now been forced to resign after admitting gross misconduct and told he can never rejoin the force.
Arranging to attend a leaving party on April 23, 2021, DS Day approached his colleague – Female A – and said: 'We could stay in a hotel, but only for a couple of hours as we both have someone to go home to.'
