Chelsea striker Sam Kerr has denied that calling a police officer “white” was used as an insult as she was cross-examined during her trial in London on a charge of racially aggravated harassment.

The Australia international is on trial charged with causing racially aggravated harassment to Pc Stephen Lovell.

Sam Kerr said she felt she was treated differently by police officers based on “what they perceived to be the colour of my skin”, a court heard on Wednesday. The Chelsea striker is charged with causing racially aggravated harassment to PC Stephen Lovell by calling him “stupid and white” during an incident inside a police station on January 30,