A former Metropolitan Police officer has been sentenced to seven years in jail for raping a fellow officer after a New 12 months’s eve get together in London.Rupert Edwards, 33, was convicted of raping the girl after accompanying her to her dwelling within the early hours of January 1, 2018. Southwark Crown Court docket heard that the assault occurred whereas each officers had been off obligation following a New 12 months’s celebration.In response to the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), the sufferer had been closely intoxicated through the get together and had little reminiscence of the occasions main as much as the assault. Prosecutors mentioned Edwards redirected a taxi that had been booked to take him dwelling and as a substitute travelled to the girl’s deal with, the place the rape occurred.The girl later recalled waking up beside Edwards and discovering they had been each bare. She advised the court docket she had by no means consented to sexual exercise and was horrified by what had occurred. Prosecutors mentioned Edwards later despatched her a message asking to satisfy once more for one more sexual encounter.Sentencing Edwards, the court docket additionally imposed a restraining order stopping him from contacting the sufferer or visiting locations the place she could also be current.In a press release learn in court docket, the girl mentioned the rape had left her emotionally devastated and that the conviction wouldn’t erase its lasting influence. “A conviction doesn’t convey me closure. I’ll proceed to reside with the consequences of what he has finished,” she mentioned.The sufferer reported the assault to police in 2023, prompting an investigation that led to Edwards’ arrest the next 12 months. He was later charged and located responsible of 1 depend of rape after a trial.
