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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Vikram Dodd Police and crime correspondent

Ex-Met police officer convicted of multiple counts of rape

Cliff Mitchell
A woman said Cliff Mitchell had repeatedly attacked her between 2020 and 2023 and used his status as a police officer to silence her. Photograph: Metropolitan Police/PA

A man recruited by the Metropolitan police as an officer despite being accused of raping a child was convicted on Wednesday of 13 counts of raping a woman and a child, as well as kidnap.

Cliff Mitchell, 24, was caught only when a passerby saw a female victim running through a street in Hackbridge, south-west London, shouting: “He’s going to kill me, he held a knife up to me, I’m so scared.”

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