Former Met police officer admits failing to investigate rape cases at all, and faking police reports to cover that failure up.

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It seems 11 suspects associated with 13 complaints over three years were never really investigated at all.

An investigator from the Metropolitan police specialist sex crimes unit has admitted failing to investigate the alleged rapes and sexual assaults of 12 women by faking police reports, failing to pass on forensic evidence and not interviewing suspects.

It was the Sapphire Unit, which were supposed to set the gold standard for exemplary investigation of sexual crimes for the rest of the country's forces.

What. The. Fuck.

I feel sorry for the women involved, and for the families of the two who commited suicide. What a horrible story.

Fucking SCUM.

Not enough that DOZENS of them all collaborate to slander and lie about football fans who have just lost their friends and family.

Now the "special victims unit", the team women are supposed to trust more than anyone else to rise above disbelief, shaming, victim blaming and insensitivity to get that rapist off to Albany (or Wakefield, it's called the monsters' mansion for a reason) is not investigating its specific remit?

I'm not surprised people call them pigs and the filth if so many behave this way no offence to any decent police officers reading

It's especially disturbing because it isn't just chaotic failures by someone suffering terrible stress, for instance. He wasn't just not doing things he was supposed to - he was actively altering documents to hide evidence against suspects, and blocking investigation at all levels. I find it really, really unlikely that someone with MH problems impeding their effectiveness, which the defence are trying to argue, would be so systematic.

This is really creepy and makes me wonder if the man was a rapist himself and therefore taking rapists' 'side' on the grounds that women deserved it/don't matter.

I certainly wondered if he didn't have sympathy for the rapists, yes. Was trying to assist them. Because he did assist them, and quite systematically, so you really do have to wonder as to his motives. Why would someone apply to work in that unit and then sabotage so many cases?