Met Police officer who ‘thought he was above the law’ jailed 16 years for campaign of rape, abuse and stalking against three women

‘The metropolitan police officer, who thinks he was above the law, was imprisoned for a vile abuse campaign with the rape of two women.

Jake Cummings was a police officer in London when he performed a special concert in Dorset and then ‘comprehensive control, challenging behavior’ against three women for five years.

The 26 -year -old bomb bombed them with messages and isolated from his friends, family and colleagues.

The jury members heard that women who had raped and suffered serious psychological damage were further deterioration and humiliation.

Today, Cummings has been imprisoned for ten crimes for ten crimes at the St Albans Crown Court in Hertfordshire.

He was found guilty by a jury consisting of two rapes in two re -trials of three challenging control behavior, three -point challenging control behavior.

The infamous officer also followed twice and was found guilty by a jury of a third number of the same crime.

Judge Bilal Siddique, the defendant from Stevenage in Hertfordshire, said that he had deployed a ‘stunning pattern of abuse’ in a stunning manner against his victims.

This was ‘something other than impulsive crime’, the judge said: ‘The duration of the accusation – was about five years starting from July 2019 – February 2024 – nothing can be defined as nothing except for an abuse campaign.’

Judge Siddique, ‘contact volume’, some of them should be realized as a police officer who serves during your shifts ‘means that’ he said.

The images published by the police show Cummings, surrounded by civil servants because he was arrested in bed at home in the early hours of February 24 last year.

After being allowed to dress, he could be seen in a tense squeezing his hands in the living room before he was taken to a minibus to be driven to a police station, and he rejected any injustice in interviews made by the officers.

During the first hearing of Cummings, Met Officer Zak Russell said to the court: ‘I remember that he will be on his phone all the time on shifts and that he would send a message to someone every hour.’

Prosecutor Tom Little Kc, who opened the trial, said the jury members showed that the defendant shows ‘over -control, challenging and manipulative behavior’, which he thought was above the law.

The jury members would continue even after the relationship ended.

Since 2018, the defendant was considered as a special officer in Dorset and joined Aylesbury in Buckinghamshire in November in November the following year.

Judge Bilal Siddique said that he deployed a ‘stunning model of abuse model’ against his victims from Stevenage in Hertfordshire.

Mr. Little said that he carried his asset card even when he was always out of duty and would ‘burn’.

Each of the three victims of Cummings from the ages of 19-24 and from Dorset, Hertfordshire and Buckinghamshire, harassment and compelling control stories, one of them were observed using security cameras.

The jury members heard that the first complainant used the phone applications called Life360 and Team audience to monitor the position of the first complainant and gave him ‘mare -like control and information’.

In addition, with more than 5,000 messages between them, most of the Cummings would go down the road.

When the detectives prepared a report in February 2024, one of the victims of Cummings began investigations.

The interest of the media after being allocated after being allocated, led to a second victim to stand out later on that month.

Officers, weeks later, after passing by Cummings’s mobile phone, a third victim identified.

The case was initially taken by Hertfordshire’s sexual crimes investigation team before the transfer of Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Hertfordshire to the Great Crime Unit due to complex conditions.

Cummings was dismissed from Met after he found that a disciplinary hearing had been heavily abused.

After being convicted, Neil Vaughan of the Crown Prosecutor’s Office said: ‘Jake Cummings thought it was above the law, but proves contrary.

“These women did not recognize each other, but together they drew an attractive picture that left the harassment pattern given by Cummings naked.”

CPS ‘complex investigation’ then worked closely with Hertfordshire Constabulary, and adding the following, adding: ‘We hope that the CPS will have ruthless justice for the victims of rape and serious sexual crimes.’

Detective Inspector Dale Mepstead said: ‘The emotional effect of Cummings’s discomfort will live with their victims for many years, but finally, with the brave expressions that they have been delivered to justice.’

Detective Officer Ellie Cowling of sexual crimes investigation team described Cummings as a ‘serious and predatory criminal’.

He said: ‘No one is beyond the law, and when the claims are made, we will always take action.’