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Met Police officer revealed as one of Britain’s worst rapists - Telegraph

275 replies

inkjet · 16/01/2023 11:33

uk.news.yahoo.com/serving-met-police-officer-revealed-111217785.html

Comprehensive article in The Telegraph.

OP posts:
reesewithoutaspoon · 16/01/2023 15:42

More than 1,000 police officers and staff accused of domestic abuse are still serving in law enforcement, new figures show.
Eight out of 10 kept their jobs after the allegations were made, with a small fraction being disciplined or dismissed.

A series of freedom of information requests by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism showed that 1,080 out of 1,319 police officers and staff who were reported for alleged domestic abuse during a three-year period were still working. Replies were received from 41 forces across the UK.

The Met, the largest force, received 398 domestic abuse reports against serving officers and staff, with nine people being dismissed and 336 still working.

This is horrific and was from a FOI request by The Guardian, reported Mar 22.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/mar/17/80-percent-of-uk-police-accused-of-domestic-abuse-kept-jobs-figures-show

Enough now. To long police have protected their own. Allegations need to go to a separate organisation, with no ties to the police.

ClaudiusTheGod · 16/01/2023 15:42

You only have to go to a few AA meetings to work out that the safest place to be drunk on duty is in the police. They cover for each other all the time.

PetsPalace · 16/01/2023 15:47

The Inspector who called me to explain that the new officer I'd complained about had been "given words of advice" but also went on to tell me that's how he met his own wife, on the job and asked her out, totally minimising what happened to me.
The married with kids PC (so wasn't innocently looking for a girlfriend after all) went on to be jailed 10 years later for sexual offences against multiple women he was supposed to be helping & protecting. The details are/were sickening. As a teenager I could recognise his behaviour wasn't acceptable but his boss who went on to be quite senior in the force (not the Met) couldn't (or couldn't give a shit)?!
He was only 1 year into the job and was already emboldened to act like that. If more had been done those women wouldn't have suffered. I wonder if my complaint could have facilitated him, knowing nothing would be done even if women were brave enough to come forward. I tried back then, and when the Police asked for my assistance 10 years later I agreed to give another statement. They think there are other victims, it's so upsetting. He's out now with a new woman, his own business, living what looks like a pretty normal life. I doubt his customers know who they are letting in to their homes.
Don't trust them.

paintitallover · 16/01/2023 15:59

That's awful @PetsPalace . I'm sorry that happened to you.

The culture in the police forces seems very poor to me. Lots of blind eyes, lots of excuses made. I read that this case was one of the reasons that Cressida Dick lost her job. Apparently there are 100 cases in the met, aren't there? There'll be plenty more elsewhere.

FailingMotherhood · 16/01/2023 16:02

It's because a lot of the men at the top of these institutions either think that women are exaggerating, lying, being 'hysterical' - and even if they're not, the men in charge don't see the offence as something worth ruining the poor little sex offender's life over.

See also the Brock Turner case in the US, or, to a lesser extent, more recently the Daniel MacFarlane case in Scotland - his victim had recordings of him admitting that he raped her, there were messages submitted as evidence where he admitted it, and he still was allowed into Edinburgh University whilst on trial for rape, the verdict wasn't unanimous, and he received a shorter sentence due to his age (late teens when he raped her, but was 23 when he was still denying it and forcing his victim through horrendous cross-examination, and absolutely no remorse). He got five years, but it's so depressing when you're just glad a rapist has ended up in jail at all, instead of either getting with it, or just getting a slap on the wrist.

TooBigForMyBoots · 16/01/2023 16:05

FailingMotherhood · 16/01/2023 12:52

It's a bit fucking rich the, "Ooh, we should have spotted his predatory behaviour, sorry!", isn't it?

They didn't need to 'spot' it, they were fucking told about it repeatedly over the best part of 20 years - they just needed to listen and investigate.

This.AngryAngryAngry

CousinKrispy · 16/01/2023 16:35

UNPRECEDENTED MY ASS

ResisterRex · 16/01/2023 16:41

Why did he confess? Was there a digital trail? I don't understand that part

smileladiesplease · 16/01/2023 16:41

ArabellaScott

What you said exactly up thread

HashBrownandBeans · 16/01/2023 17:11

Twenty years ago one of my colleagues was murdered by her police officer husband, along with 2 of the 4 children(the older two escaped)
there had been numerous reports of extremely violent DV that they had brushed under the carpet as he was ‘one of the lads’.

notnownorma · 16/01/2023 17:16

Natty13 · 16/01/2023 13:24

Funny because my first thought was "yet feminists all over the country are more concerned about what toilets we all use"

In my opinoon this man and men like him pose 1000x more threat to me, my sisters and our daughters than any man wearing a dress, or any man who wants to transition m2f.

THIS. But it's all the fault of trans people innit? Despite their own horrifying rate of being raped and abused, about which many so called feminists and activists don't give a shit.

ResisterRex · 16/01/2023 17:19

THIS. But it's all the fault of trans people innit? Despite their own horrifying rate of being raped and abused, about which many so called feminists and activists don't give a shit.

Start another thread and provide the stats then. Stop invading women's discussions of one of the worst cases of abuse of police power we've seen.

AdamRyan · 16/01/2023 17:20

I posted this on another thread but this one is more appropriate:

He's another good reason why people bleating on about anonymity for alleged rapists can get to fuck.

Many of his victims came forward when he was named in the media for being on trial for rape

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-64283783

To be honest I'm not sure if this is a police thing or a man thing. I think the poster up thread who said an allegation of rape = a woman lying has it.

I was already very disillusioned after Mendy was cleared last week - because he "never heard no". If that's the standard for enthusiastic consent we are fucked.

AdamRyan · 16/01/2023 17:22

notnownorma · 16/01/2023 17:16

THIS. But it's all the fault of trans people innit? Despite their own horrifying rate of being raped and abused, about which many so called feminists and activists don't give a shit.

Are there examples of police men systematically raping and abusing trans women on a large scale, over 20 years? Where the TW reported them and they weren't investigated?

If not, then your post is hardly relevant

LaughingPriest · 16/01/2023 17:24

notnownorma · 16/01/2023 17:16

THIS. But it's all the fault of trans people innit? Despite their own horrifying rate of being raped and abused, about which many so called feminists and activists don't give a shit.

If you think anyone is saying trans people are causing police officers to rape and murder then you're either not paying attention or deliberately misrepresenting people's claims.

Do you agree that there should not be any group of people beyond questioning and accountability?

Greenfairydust · 16/01/2023 17:40

The Met at this point needs to be dissolved and replace by a completely new unit.

There have been so many instances of racism and sexual abuse from officers in the past few years that there no trust left in that particular force.

I have no idea how a serial rapist who had already been flagged was allowed to continue to work as an officer.

Appalling.

As usually it is probably a case of minimising violence against women and turning a blind eye.

justasking111 · 16/01/2023 17:46

A friend visited three times at her home by a young officer after a crime. He was young enough to be her son and told her he was just back from his honeymoon. On the third visit as he was leaving he sexually assaulted her. After the shock she pushed him away. He told her not to bother reporting him because who'd believe it.

She believed him and never did

Soothsayer1 · 16/01/2023 17:56

ResisterRex · 16/01/2023 17:19

THIS. But it's all the fault of trans people innit? Despite their own horrifying rate of being raped and abused, about which many so called feminists and activists don't give a shit.

Start another thread and provide the stats then. Stop invading women's discussions of one of the worst cases of abuse of police power we've seen.

yes transpeople are completely free to start thier own support groups etc, just like women do!

medianewbie · 16/01/2023 18:07

Greenfairydust · 16/01/2023 17:40

The Met at this point needs to be dissolved and replace by a completely new unit.

There have been so many instances of racism and sexual abuse from officers in the past few years that there no trust left in that particular force.

I have no idea how a serial rapist who had already been flagged was allowed to continue to work as an officer.

Appalling.

As usually it is probably a case of minimising violence against women and turning a blind eye.

Yes, the MET is not fit for purpose (& hasn't been for many years / if ever)

Felix125 · 16/01/2023 18:10

The vetting should be annually done and investigations should be completed a lot quicker than is currently done.

DOBARDAN · 16/01/2023 18:12

I'm disgusted and outraged, reading about this Met Police Officer, and knowing there are many more like him who have raped, attacked, or are violent and still hold their jobs within the police force. Who can we turn to, who can we trust, when the very people who are supposed to be supporting and protecting us act like this? I don't know how these men live with themselves, nor the people who cover up for them. Disgusting, the lot of them.

PacmanIsLost · 16/01/2023 18:22

This has made me so angry today. I can’t believe this shit still happens and how on earth do we begin to tackle it.
I would say take to the streets to protest but no doubt the police will shut that down again.

Abhannmor · 16/01/2023 18:27

Robert Mark cleaned up the Met in the 70s . Needs another Untouchable. Someone from a different force. Different country maybe. Root and branch.

wonderstuff · 16/01/2023 18:50

I’m so angry, but not shocked. It’s not just the behaviour of this man or the others who assault women, but the culture and actions that allow these men to continue unchallenged, for 20 years ffs.

Borgonzola · 16/01/2023 20:00

Yet more proof that the Met may as well go ahead and just start recruiting directly from the sex offenders register