Some 16 minutes later he sent another video showing a man 'engaged in bestiality'. He accepted it had been 'inappropriate and reckless' to send it. Again, he told the hearing he didn't remember the clip and sent it without viewing it in full. He admitted he sent another 'offensive' clip later the same day, this time showing extreme pornography featuring sexually explicit violence on male genitalia. GMP's headquarters (Image: ABNM Photography) He insisted he didn't find the video 'funny or interesting' but accepted he had been 'inappropriate and reckless' in sending it. He said he didn't recall the clip and insisted he believed he forwarded it without viewing all of it. He sent compilation video the following day which featured 'extreme pornography of an adult male performing self-mutilation'. The first message dated March 22, 2017, contained a 'sexually offensive' picture featuring a young disabled person - Mr Martin admitted he sent it and he told the disciplinary panel: "I accept this was offensive and inappropriate and I deeply regret sending the image."
The material was uncovered when the officer's home was searched by Lancashire Police. He received images and videos 'of an obscene, offensive and inappropriate nature' and then forwarded some of them to others between March and November 2017, it reveals.
The panel was told Martin joined the force in December 2003 and was promoted to sergeant in September 2010. He said he didn't want to attend in person as he felt 'anxiety', according to the judgement. The former officer refused to attend the hearing at force HQ in Newton Heath in person but the disciplinary panel allowed his request to attend remotely via Rochdale police station, where he was based. Details of the shocking images and videos he shared on WhatsApp have been revealed in the disciplinary panel's formal judgement on the case, which has been published on the force's website. Sgt Martin resigned in March ahead of a disciplinary hearing which took place on April 25 and which concluded he would have been dismissed from the force had he not already left. READ MORE: Mum, 32, quits fashion degree to embalm bodies - including her grandad and friends "I am deeply ashamed of my actions," he said. Martin also confessed to 'sexting' and being engaged in 'multiple concurrent chats' online.
He also received - but did not forward - anti-Semitic and Islamophobic content as well as an image glorifying a white supremacist.
The Rochdale -based officer - who has received counselling for a self-confessed addiction to online porn - shared a series of vile clips, some showing sexual violence and bestiality and two offensive pictures featuring disabled people. Married Glyn Martin, who had been a respected officer with Greater Manchester Police for 14 years, left the force in shame weeks before a disciplinary hearing found him guilty of gross misconduct. If you’re in the market for some solid sapphic cinema, let this list of iconic lesbian and bisexual films be your guide.A police sergeant has resigned in disgrace after an investigation found he had shared vile pornographic videos as well as discriminatory jokes on WhatsApp. If anything, every new queer film I stumble across brings me even more delight than the last.
And though I’m now a fully out adult who can hang out with other queer people in real life instead of just at the movie theater, the excitement of discovering a story I can see myself in hasn’t waned at all over the years. In the decade since, LGBTQ representation in media has only continued to proliferate. (The “sweet little figs” scene, in case you were wondering-the girls who get it get it.) Even so, it wasn’t until years later, when I first saw Blue Is the Warmest Color, that I actually found a queer story that reminded me of my own. The first time I ever saw lesbians onscreen was when my high school’s Gay Bisexual Straight Alliance played part of the first scene of the original L Word series. Perhaps it’s trite to say that “representation matters,” but some things are cliché because they’re true.