British cop bags four-year jail term for raping London woman
Metropolitan Police officer has been sentenced to over four years imprisonment for rape.
The officer was found guilty of raping a woman at an address in London on May 11, 2021, after a trial at Inner London Crown Court earlier this year, Scotland Yard said.
He was sentenced to four years and six months’ imprisonment at the same court on Tuesday, according to the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS).
The officer deliberately targeted the victim when she was in a vulnerable situation, and she woke up to being raped by him, the CPS said.
During a police interview, he denied having sex with the victim but later changed his story to claim it was consensual after he learned of forensic evidence, the CPS said.
Cassandra Bligh, from the CPS, said, “It is shocking to know that someone we trusted to enforce the law has broken it and committed one of the most heinous crimes on a woman.”
The officer denied the charge.
Chief Superintendent Andy Carter said that after January’s verdict that he was sickened by the defendant’s abhorrent behaviour and the pain he caused the victim.
He said that there was no place for people like this in the force, vowing to root out such vile individuals.
The defendant was reported to police on June 2, 2021, and arrested on June 3.
He was suspended from duty on March 3, 2022, after admitting to lying during the police. (dpa/NAN)
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