The view that rape allegations are mostly the result of “regretful sex” was denounced as “completely unacceptable” on Thursday as London Mayor Sadiq Khan backed a probe into whether the Met Police’s former acting commissioner used the term.
Sir Stephen House, the former deputy commissioner who led Scotland Yard in the wake of Cressida Dick’s resignation last year, is alleged by a Home Office adviser to have dismissed the bulk of rape complaints as “regretful sex” during a meeting intended to improve the police response to predatory offenders and the treatment of victims.
