Ex-Met Police sergeant and celebrity nightclub owner ‘filmed calling up escorts’
A BENT police licensing boss and a celeb nightclub owner were filmed calling up escorts, a court heard.
Ex-Met Sergeant Frank Partridge and Ryan Bishti were under surveillance by the force’s anti-corruption unit.
A video shows Partridge, 50, arriving at Bishti’s apartment by the Thames in Battersea, South London, after a night out in the West End in 2015.
Bishti, 43, owns Cirque Le Soir — a favourite of celebs including Madonna, Usain Bolt and Princess Eugenie.
Bishti, in shorts and a vest, is later seen welcoming two women at the lobby.
After exactly an hour they leave. Bishti saved one’s number in his phone as “Brass” — slang for prostitute.
The video emerged at Southwark crown court, South London, where Partridge, Bishti and five others are charged with bribery offences between 2013 and 2015. Partridge, formerly of Wing, Bucks, but who now lives in Spain, was sacked on an unrelated matter but has admitted three charges.
He denies others, and being bribed with a prostitute.
Bishti, now of South Kensington, West London, denies similar charges.
The trial continues.