[News] Serving Met police officer charged with rape of woman in Brighton

[TomandJerry]

"A serving Metropolitan police officer has been charged with rape after an alleged incident on Brighton beach last year. Laurence Knight, 33, was arrested on 28 July 2021 after a woman reported being raped 11 days earlier.

Sussex police said the officer has been summoned to appear at Brighton magistrates court on 23 June. The force added that Knight was not on duty at the time of the alleged offence."

Throw away the keys!

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[Biscuit Barrel]

"A serving Metropolitan police officer has been charged with rape after an alleged incident on Brighton beach last year. Laurence Knight, 33, was arrested on 28 July 2021 after a woman reported being raped 11 days earlier.

Sussex police said the officer has been summoned to appear at Brighton magistrates court on 23 June. The force added that Knight was not on duty at the time of the alleged offence."

Throw away the keys!

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Maybe have a trial first.

 

[Cheshire Cat]

It's taken a whole year to get that far?

 

[GT49er]

It's taken a whole year to get that far?

It would probably have taken a whole lot longer if he had been on duty!

 

[Thunder Bolt]

It's taken a whole year to get that far?

The Criminal Jusrice System has been run into the ground since 2010. 50% of all magistrates courts closed, and sold off, police numbers down, and the CPS staff reduced by 30%.
Then there was Covid.

This is why many rape victims give up, because the strain of giving evidence of such a traumatic experience weighs very heavily mentally.