Kept women like slaves
London police officer confesses to 24 rapes
A London police officer has pleaded guilty to multiple counts of rape and other crimes in court. The man had approached women via Tinder and other platforms and then abused them.
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A London police officer has been accused of raping 11 women. Now he confessed.
49 crimes – including 24 rapes of women: the London police officer David C.* (48) now admitted to the investigators.
In December, the police officer had already admitted in court that he had raped and molested eleven other women. This is said to have happened between 2004 and 2020. Before his time in the police force, the man worked in the military. It was not until autumn 2021 that he was relieved of his duties after complaints.
Chief investigator Ian Moor said the sheer number of offenses – 49 in all – showed the man’s “callous nature”. David C. approached women through online dating apps like Tinder, but also at social events, and used his position as a police officer to gain trust.
“He invested time in developing relationships with women to satisfy his need for degradation and control,” Moor said. The perpetrator suppressed his victims in “the most destructive way”.
Women had to clean the house at night
He forced some of them to clean his house naked or locked them under a staircase at home for hours. “I’ve seen kennels that are bigger,” the investigator described. He would humiliate his victims in the worst possible way, beating them with his belt or urinating on them.
For the scandal-plagued London police, the case in which the sentence is to be announced at the beginning of February is a new blow. After several drastic cases, such as the murder of Londoner Sarah Everard by an active police officer, law enforcement officers in the British capital have lost a lot of the population’s trust.
Independent reports also gave Scotland Yard devastating testimony about sexism and racism within its own ranks. The new police chief, Mark Rowley, has a declared goal of restoring trust and reforming the police force. (SDA)