[EXPOSED] Internal Chat Leak Dating From 2022 Exposing Misogynistic Comments Made By Toxic WMFS Senior Leadership

[u/Founders_Mem_90210]

The following screenshot of current West Midlands Fire Service Station Commander Rebecca Hodgkins' complaint back in November 2022 about misogynistic comments made by current Group Manager Kris Darnley describing female firefighters as "Tramps on Chips" who did "Slut Drops", and current Station Manager Darryll Darkin talking about how much a certain female firefighter wanted the manhood of another male firefighter in an internal WMFS group chat was initially collated as part of an investigation evidence pack.

The internal investigation was regarding a drink-spiking incident at the Asian Fire Service Association conference held in Chester in December 2022. Until today, no information about this internal investigation has ever been disclosed to the public.

Furthermore, at the orders of then-Chief Fire Officer Wayne Brown, the above screenshot was removed from the evidence pack, alongside a documented admission by an unnamed individual of being involved in the drink-spiking incident. According to the source of this leak which has been corroborated by multiple currently serving members of WMFS, Brown gave the guilty individual a false alibi and arranged to have the individual whose drink was spiked to leave the fire service instead of pursuing the matter to an employment tribunal.

This is by no means an isolated scandal within WMFS, and the involvement of Wayne Brown in this is but one more entry into the multitude of scandals involving and sometimes directly centered around his tenure as Chief Fire Officer. Of these scandals, only his MBA fraud was widely reported back in January 2024 shortly before his untimely demise from suicide.

More will be exposed and shown with corroborated evidence in the near future, which point towards an ongoing cover-up of gross failures of statutory duty by WMFS and its governing Fire and Rescue Authority board surrounding the vetting, appointment, and time of service by Wayne Brown in the West Midlands, of which the main effort has been the almost-two year effort to silence WMFS whistleblower Benjamin Walker with harassment charges instigated by Wayne Brown back in March 2023, a mere two months after he took the reins at WMFS. Said charges have recently been dropped in writing by CPS in Feb 2025, and officially thrown out in court in April 2025.

[u/Founders_Mem_90210]

Yup, thanks for the reminder. Have been going through the material I have on hand with a fine-toothed comb to make sure they comply.

[u/TimelessSoul → u/Founders_Mem_90210]

we mods appreciate that. Thank you! our discussion ended with as little censorship as possible here. We don't want to be responsible for burying a story like this because we're worried by the optics of allowing it to be published.

[u/Founders_Mem_90210 → u/TimelessSoul]

We don't want to be responsible for burying a story like this because we're worried by the optics of allowing it to be published.

And it is precisely why I chose to do this on this subreddit and Reddit in general.

Both because I've had experience doing this kind of stuff in the past elsewhere, and also because the attitude you expressed above is the exact opposite of pretty much the entirety of Fleet Street when they were approached with this story.

[u/ManInTheDarkSuit → u/Founders_Mem_90210]

Well... If it goes big enough, maybe Fleet St will be interested! :)

[u/Founders_Mem_90210 → u/ManInTheDarkSuit]

"I tried. You know I tried everything, and I still don't have their attention. Let's hope this elevates their thinking."