Overview
- Former detective constable Sean Brierley went to Gravity Well Taproom near Leyton on July 2, 2025 after being told a suspect was not yet ready to be interviewed.
- Bar CCTV recorded him buying three glasses of white wine over roughly two hours while on duty.
- CCTV and witness accounts described him returning to the station unsteady, off balance, and later assessed by staff as smelling of alcohol with slurred speech.
- Colleagues arranged a welfare check at about 12:20am, where officers found him disoriented at home and “staring at the ceiling in a glazed manner,” the ruling noted.
- Panel chair Commander Katie Lilburn said his actions were intentional and planned, and the panel concluded he would have been dismissed had he not already resigned.