A Met Police marksman with more than a decade’s service lied twice on his vetting form, failing to declare three historic arrests including one firearms incident. Police Sergeant Moshud Hussain, from South London, has now been sacked over the fiasco, which meant he was able to serve in London’s elite gun squad despite having been the subject of an investigation into possessing a firearm.
A misconduct hearing heard Hussain was arrested three times over the course of a year in the early 2000s. He was convicted for driving without a license when police pulled him over as a 16-year-old behind the wheel in May 2003. Weeks later he was arrested on suspicion of racially aggravated assault but the case was thrown out of court before the trial.
The most serious incident happened a year later in May 2004 when police stopped Hussain while he was travelling home with two friends in their car, following another incident. The custody record stated he had two paintball pellets on him, but he said these may have been recorded as his due to where he was sitting in the car. The case was no further actioned.
At the tribunal, Hussain argued he was not being dishonest when he failed to declare the arrests in 2008 on his first vetting form, and that he had no help with the application because his family were against him joining. In relation to the 2018 form, where he also failed to mention the arrests, Hussain said he was ‘careless’ and assumed one of the arrests had been an informal trip to the police station.
The misconduct panel rejected Hussain’s explanations though, noting that he would have ignored several warnings on the form to be open and honest. “Dishonesty when working as a police officer is considered very serious misconduct,” the panel added. Hussain was sacked with notice and added to the barring list.
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