The leader of Chelsea Sonia Bompastor says that the apology of striker Sam Kerr is enough and the club will not take disciplinary action after the court case.
Kerr, who is currently injured, was found to be guilty of causing the harassment of racially aggressive harassment after calling a “stupid and white” metropolitan police officer after an incident on Twickenham on January 30, 2023.
After the incident, the 31 -year -old apologized “for expressing myself badly on what was a traumatic evening”.
Bompastor said: “Sam made a statement, apologized and I think it’s enough.
“Everyone can make mistakes and you learn from that and so you are going.
“What she was facing last week was quite difficult for her, so all we want to do as a club is to support it.”
Kerr, who scored 95 goals in 122 appearances for Chelsea since 2019, has not been played since he suffered a serious knee injury in a training camp in January 2024
Bompastor said it was “difficult to give an exact time frame” for Kerr’s return, but said he was “going well” in education.
The trial heard Kerr and her partner Kristie Mewis were taken to the Twickenham Police Department from a taxi driver who complained that they refused to pay the cleaning costs after Kerr was ill and Mewis had broken the back window of the vehicle.
Kerr said, along with her partner, she was afraid of their lives and in an evolutionary exchange, they accused one of the police of being “stupid and white”.
Chelsea striker, who made the comments on PC Stephen Lovell, did not refuse to use the words “stupid and white”, but denied that he was equivalent to racial offense.
“What is that it does not reflect what I heard on the court and what I was reading in the newspapers,” Bompastor said.
“Sam. She’s really shy and she just wants to live a life. He doesn’t like to be in the light. She’s shining. She’s a really normal person and likes to be quiet.”
Bompastor, who said he had come into contact with Kerr during the trial, added: “We really know her, probably, along with her family, those who know her best.
“It was hard to see in this situation. We are family and we really supported and I am really happy that the verdict was positive and now it can move on.”
