Met Officer Jailed for Life After 10 Counts of Rape

Published on May 1, 2024

A man who kidnapped and raped a woman at knife point while serving as a Metropolitan Police officer has been jailed for life for a series of sexual assaults. Following a trial at Croydon Crown Court, Cliff Mitchell, 24, was convicted of 10 counts of rape, three counts of rape of a child under 13, one count of kidnap, and a breach of a non-molestation order, all dating between 2014 and 2023. Mitchell’s crimes have echoes of Wayne Couzens and David Carrick, who committed horrendous sex crimes while serving police officers. But in Mitchell’s case he joined the force as recently as 2021, despite previously having been subject to a rape investigation in 2017....

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