This is the first picture of the senior Metropolitan Police officer who told Des O'Connor's daughter that she was ‘amazingly hot' after she was the victim of an attempted mugging.
Detective Chief Inspector James Mason who is a former aide of Cressida Dick made the remark to Kristina O'Connor, 33, while asking her for a date after taking her statement.
He was pictured last October when he attended a hearing where he was found guilty of gross misconduct that was sexually motivated, but was only barred from any promotion for the next three years.
It was revealed on Sunday that Ms O'Connor is taking legal action against the Metropolitan Police for ‘enabling and normalising' misogyny after Mason was allowed to keep his job.
The daughter of singer Des who died aged 88 in November 2020 has filed a judicial review against the Met and the head of the police misconduct panel, saying that they failed to properly deal with her complaint.
Her lawyers claim that Mason's ‘discriminatory and predatory' behaviour was not adequately addressed due to a flawed misconduct hearing.
The case is being seen as another hammer blow for Scotland Yard's embattled Commissioner Cressida Dick who is fighting to keep her job after a series of scandals, amid claims that she has failed to fully tackle racist and misogynistic behaviour by officers.
The force has repeatedly faced heavy criticism since Sarah Everard, 33, was abducted, 온라인슬롯 raped and murdered PC Wayne Couzens in a case that outraged Britain last March.
DCI James Mason was pictured when he attended a hearing in October last year where he was accused of making inappropriate advances with 'sexual overtones' towards Kristina O'Connor
Ms O'Connor (pictured), 33, is pursuing a legal claim against the Met Police over its handling of DCI Mason's misconduct investigation after the officer kept his job
Miss O'Connor is the daughter of late entertainer Des O'Connor (pictured together), who died in 2020; and she is a musician in her own right
Last month the academic Dr Koshka Duff finally won compensation and an apology after an incident in 2013 when she was strip-searched as Met officers laughed and made comments including: ‘What's that
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Oh, it's her knickers.'
Two Met officers were jailed last December for taking selfies at the murder scene where black sisters Nicole Smallman, 27, and Bibaa Henry, 46, were found stabbed to death in a London park in June 2020.
In another shocking case last week, the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) found that Met officers at Charing Cross police station had sent messages which joked about rape, domestic violence and killing black children.
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Sadiq Khan today ordered the Commissioner to clean up her force in ‘a matter of days and weeks' or face losing her job.
The Mayor of London told of his dismay that nine out of 14 officers criticised in the probe at Charing Cross were still in their jobs, and two had been promoted.
Ms O'Connor revealed how a gang of young men on bikes tried to grab her phone when she was on her way to Sainsbury's in Camden, north London, on a Sunday afternoon in October 2011.
She held on to her phone, but ended up with a black eye after being elbowed in the face.
Ms O'Connor posted a Facebook video last night about a new Patreon which mentioned case
DCI Mason was seen outside the hearing last October he was found guilty of gross misconduct that was sexually motivated, but was only barred from any promotion for the next three years
DCI James Mason has been described as an aide to Met Commissioner Dame Cressida Dick, who is under fire to improve professional standards and vetting procedures in the force