A MAN has appeared at Thames Magistrates Court charged with impersonating a police officer. He has been named as Martin McCarthy, 29, of Fairfoot Road, E3, in Tower Hamlets.
It is alleged that McCarthy impersonated a police officer in the course of an incident which occurred around noon on 29th January in the Stratford Centre, E15. A member of the public reported that a man was behaving suspiciously.
Following a police investigation of the circumstances which led to the report, McCarthy was charged with impersonating a police officer and with blackmail.
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