The London mayoralty campaign just got more exciting.
"Brian Paddick, who was Britain’s most senior openly gay policeman, is to reveal in his memoirs that his first homosexual encounter was with another officer. Paddick, who left the Metropolitan Police this year after clashing with Sir Ian Blair, the commissioner, will also disclose affairs with several women in the force and describe how he was once propositioned by a black WPC...In his book, Line of Fire, to be published by Simon & Schuster, he describes how he was living in a police lodgings in north London when a policeman knocked on the door. Paddick, 49, writes: 'He was an attractive male PC.' The two had sex but Paddick confesses that he 'had not known what to do and that he was in turmoil'. He describes how he encountered prejudice in his career because of his sexuality. 'I was in a homophobic organisation,' he said this weekend. Paddick relates attempts to repress his homosexual instincts and how, initially at least, he 'overcame', as he puts it, his sexuality through his Christian faith. He got engaged to three women before marrying a beauty consultant. He writes that she had no idea, for most of their marriage, that he was gay."
The Times, which brings us these thrilling details, reckons that the book, to be published shortly before next year's election, "represents a gamble for Paddick as he takes on Ken Livingstone and Boris Johnson." You don't say! It adds: "Paddick also writes about his relationship with the Met’s commissioner Ian Blair."
Relationship, eh? Oh, well, we can dream...
"Brian Paddick, who was Britain’s most senior openly gay policeman, is to reveal in his memoirs that his first homosexual encounter was with another officer".
Yawn.
Is this really the best the lib dems have to offer London?
Posted by: Kris | November 18, 2007 at 04:10 PM