A former police constable in the Metropolitan Police Service has been sentenced to 14 months in prison after pleading guilty to perverting the course of justice.

Benjamin Whitcher, 31, was sentenced at Guildford Crown Court yesterday (Thursday, 11 June) after admitting he lied having been caught speeding on three separate occasions. He will also be disqualified from driving for six months after serving his prison sentence.

Whitcher was first caught on camera for two separate speeding offences on the M3 in Sunbury back in April 2021. When contacted, he tried to claim that it wasn’t him on both occasions. Whitcher was then caught speeding again the following month, in May 2021, and again tried to claim someone else had been using the car at the time.

Whitcher, (DOB 19/06/1993) of Basingstoke, resigned from the Metropolitan Police Service ahead of a misconduct hearing in November 2025, which found he would have been dismissed if he had still been serving.