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A former London police officer-turned-city staffer has launched a $4-million negligence lawsuit against police in London and Woodstock and two women’s agencies, alleging he lost his job and had his reputation tarnished after being charged with assaulting his ex-wife.

Marcel Marcellin’s lawsuit alleges Megan Walker, executive director of the London Abused Women’s Centre, and Kate Wiggins, former director of Anova, a London agency that provides shelter and counselling for abused women, tried to destroy Marcellin’s life and career, according to a statement of claim filed Tuesday.

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The lawsuit contends police ran a negligent investigation, with the three women named as defendants — Walker, Wiggins and Marcellin’s ex-wife — also responsible for the damages that resulted. Other claims in the suit include defamation and breach of privacy.

Marcellin, 48, worked as a London police officer for 21 years, reaching the rank of sergeant and serving as diversity officer, before leaving the force for a job at city hall, where he was responsible for overseeing the UN Women’s Safe Cities initiative.

He was going through a bitter custody dispute with his ex-wife, identified as J.Y., in 2018, when Walker and Wiggins pressured Marcellin to abandon his family law claims or suffer serious consequences, the claim alleges.

Walker and Wiggins met with then-city manager Martin Hayward on April 26, 2018, and made false statements about Marcellin’s character and past treatment of his ex-wife, asking Hayward to remove Marcellin from the Safe Cities file and to threaten to fire him if he didn’t drop his family law proceedings, the 26-page lawsuit alleges.

“Ms. Walker and Ms. Wiggins had become drunk with the power that their positions of influence provided them,” the documents contend.

“As a result, they acted in a manner that was tantamount to holding Marcel’s reputation over his head like a guillotine blade unless he gave into demands entirely related to their personal animus towards him.”