The rot at the met goes right to the watchdog

I don't know that's always true. Just an example...

William Roache got charged with several counts of sexual assault and rape. One of his accusors had to retract her statement because she realised in court she meant Peter Adamson who played Len Fairclough and not Bill Roache. You'd think it would be pretty basic police work to check she was accusing the right man.

Another of his accusers stated in court that she actually couldn't remember if she'd been assaulted or not.

Everyone is entitled to due process.

Agree with this. Have always supported the Police and promoted the point that they're the good guys. I'm not so sure saying that these days.

It’s awful. My 3 year old had a visit from the police at nursery last week and I was chatting to her about how the police are here to help and for the first time I didn’t know if I should be giving my girls the message of if you lost or don’t feel safe then go to the police. I did say it to them but I felt very uneasy doing it.

https://victimscommissioner.org.uk/news/the-distressing-truth-is-that-if-you-are-raped-in-britain-today-your-chances-of-seeing-justice-are-slim/

Not proven no, but we know the CPS only charges where there's reasonable evidence. We know they hardly bring any rape trials to court at all, and given who he is, they would have had to have been even more sure there was a very good chance of conviction before doing so.

Let's hope the court case proceeds quickly and the whole process doesn't drag on for years for everyone's sake.

He's denied the allegations and nothing's been proved as yet. I dont think that he should be judged guilty or not til all the evidence has been heard.

No surprise. Shudder. Rotten to the core.

We've had similar issues in America over the years, and when there's a culture of misogyny within the police higher ups, you can be certain it's also within city government. I mean duh, but what I'm saying is that when guys like this go down, his fellow sex weirdos go down with him bc some enterprise has been discovered by what we'd call here federal authorities. Maybe a mistress was caught in a human trafficking scheme and spilled the contents of her little black book to avoid a big sentence. It would really tickle me, given how rapey and awful the Met is, if this is the beginning of a huge bust necessitating the bringing in of new blood.

I have no words for how disgusting this is