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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Ellie Crabbe

Charing Cross Met officer who 'mocked' rape allegation is sacked

A Metropolitan Police officer who worked at Charing Cross police station has been sacked after he was secretly filmed “trivialising and mocking” a complainant’s allegation of rape.

The undercover footage, which was aired on a BBC Panorama programme, showed Sergeant Clayton Robinson saying "I've got to be honest, I've gone to bed before and can't remember taking my trousers off" after another officer told him about a rape allegation in which a woman said she woke up without trousers on and did not remember taking them off, a misconduct hearing was told.

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