Former Cambridgeshire police officer guilty of raping girl

A erstwhile constabulary serviceman and barrister has been recovered blameworthy of raping a teen much than 30 years ago.

James Boyle abused the girl, who was nether 16, betwixt 1986 and 1991 portion serving for Cambridgeshire police.

The 69-year-old, of Sunbury Street, Edinburgh, was convicted by a proceedings assemblage of 2 counts of rape and 1 number of indecent assault.

Detectives said they were told astir the offences successful 2018 aft an "exchange of messages connected societal media".

"I privation to praise the bravery demonstrated by the unfortunate successful this lawsuit for coming forward," said Det Sgt Carla Hillyer, of Essex Police, who said Boyle was inactive moving arsenic a lawyer astatine the clip of his arrest.

"Boyle worked arsenic a transgression defence barrister, helium knew this system, and what the unfortunate was up against."

Essex Police said the offences happened astatine antithetic locations successful Cambridgeshire.

Constabularies from elsewhere successful the UK routinely analyse cases wherever the applicable constabulary unit is deemed to person a imaginable struggle of interest.

Ms Hillyer besides commended the enactment of her workfellow Det Con Adam Clarke who she said "worked tirelessly" connected the case.

Boyle is owed backmost astatine Cambridge Crown Court for sentencing connected 25 May.

Essex Police said determination was proposal and guidance for "anyone affected by rape and intersexual abuse" via the Synergy Essex website, which is simply a postulation of enactment organisations autarkic of the force.