Leicester police officer arrested on suspicion of driving while on drugs

Leicester police officer arrested on suspicion of driving while on drugs

A Leicester police officer has been arrested on suspicion of driving while unfit through drugs after a man was killed following a car chase.

An officer from its roads policing unit (RPU) had attempted to stop a black BMW shortly before 4 am on Friday, but the driver refused, according to the police. Senior officers authorised a pursuit and the BMW left the road a short time later, hitting a tree close to the junction with Richmond Avenue, in the Aylestone area of the city.

The driver, who was in his 20s, was pronounced dead at the scene while his passenger – also a man in his 20s – was taken to hospital with injuries not “life-threatening or life-changing.”