'I was raped by a Metropolitan Police officer but saw him jailed - twice'

Lauren Taylor was conscionable 16 erstwhile she was raped by a Metropolitan Police serviceman successful 2010.

Adam Provan was astir doubly her property but helium lied to her, telling her helium was 22 and promising a day astatine the cinema.

But first, helium explained, helium wanted to spell for a locomotion successful a parkland successful Romford, eastbound London. Instead, helium took her to a woodland and raped her.

More than a decennary later, Provan has been sentenced astatine Wood Green Crown Court for the crime.

The erstwhile Met officer, 44, from Newmarket successful Suffolk, was jailed for 16 years with a further 8 connected extended licence for 2 counts of rape against Lauren, arsenic good arsenic six counts of raping a pistillate constabulary serviceman betwixt 2003 and 2005.

But it has taken respective years - and 3 trials - to unafraid justness for the women.

"I was conscionable frozen with fear, I think," Lauren said. "That's however I managed to get done the full trauma and get location safely - was conscionable to unreal I wasn't there, unreal it wasn't me. It wasn't happening to me."

Lauren said Provan acted arsenic though thing had happened aft her rape, buying her a milkshake and aboriginal raping her again.

It took six years for her to consciousness capable to study the transgression to police.

However, determination was different pistillate who had attended tribunal and listened to Lauren's unfortunate interaction statement.

She was a Met Police serviceman similar Provan. And helium had raped her too.

During the 3rd proceedings this twelvemonth the tribunal heard that the pistillate serviceman told Met bosses Provan had raped and abused her years earlier Lauren's case, but had efficaciously been told to support quiescent astir it for the involvement of her career.

The 2nd pistillate told the tribunal successful a unfortunate interaction connection she "was the victim, yet I felt similar the suspect", adding she "felt bullied and victimised" astatine work.

Judge Lucas said her attraction by the Met was some "abysmal" and "shocking".

Despite the different woman's experience, Lauren said her ain attraction by officers has been precise antithetic and she is grateful for their support.

Now aged 29, Lauren has the ineligible close to stay an anonymous intersexual maltreatment survivor, but she wants to stock her communicative to promote others to travel forward.

"Finding retired helium was a constabulary serviceman was sickening," she said. "It took maine a batch of courageousness and spot to spell to police.

"But I think, implicit time, they person been much to maine than immoderate household have."

In her unfortunate interaction connection work to the court, she explained her relationships person breached down owed to the rape and the interaction of giving evidence, and she inactive experiences "flashbacks and panic attacks".

Although she is "thankful" Provan is backmost successful jail, she is aggravated she had to spell done different trial.

"To beryllium honest, I don't consciousness similar I've been precise strong. But I consciousness similar the lone 1 who tin bash thing astir it is me," she said.

"I cognize the truth, and that's the lone happening that kept maine going."

Sentencing Provan, Judge Lucas told the suspect helium had displayed a "cold-blooded entitlement to sex".

The justice said helium was troubled by the mode the Met handled the pistillate officer's archetypal complaints against Provan's behaviour successful 2005, saying those astatine the unit "were much acrophobic with looking aft 1 of their ain than taking her seriously".

He went connected to accidental that if an probe been taken forward, Lauren whitethorn not person been raped.