Eleanor Neale

Another conversation that they had about the fear of losing their jobs went as follows.

Cousins said, mate, they aren't going to ditch you with your skill set unless you finger a DV victim.

Unless you sexually assault a victim of domestic violence that is coming to you for help.

He quickly follows up with, PC Cobben, if that's the case, you're probably fucked.

And he responds, that's alright, DV victims love it.

That's why they're repeat victims.

Then another officer chimes in just to make a comment about repeat victims of domestic violence.

A PC Joel Borders says, no, they just don't listen, with a laughing face.

In these chats, they would share graphics depicting violence against women.

and making a whole manner of inappropriate comments, be it in relation to cases that they were working on or just in general.

There was misogyny, racism, violent comments, being dismissive and joking about rape complaints.

A number of police officers lost their jobs in the aftermath of these inquiries.

which is bittersweet news, because, well, good, they shouldn't be allowed to keep those jobs, but also, how the hell had all of this flown under the radar for so long?

Inquiries revealed that in the five years prior to Sarah's murder, 27 different people working for the Met Police had committed offences, including rape and possession of indecent images of children.

27 different police officers in London alone.

These are the kind of people that are slipping through the cracks of these abysmal vetting processes and being able to have authority over the rest of us.

And let me tell you about the worst of the worst.

Right behind Wayne Cousins was a man named David Carrick.

He had been brought to police attention by a woman the very next day after Cousins' sentencing.

She came forward to say that she too had been raped by a serving metropolitan police officer, PC Carrick.