Sadiq Khan bids to dam pension of rapist ex-Metropolitan Police officer Adam Provan

London mayor Sadiq Khan is aiming to dam the pension of rapist ex-Metropolitan Police officer Adam Provan.

Provan was jailed last week for 16 years, with one other eight years on prolonged licence, for a number of rapes in opposition to a teenage woman and a feminine police officer.

The 44-year-old was convicted in June of six counts of rape of a fellow police officer between 2003 and 2005.

He was additionally discovered responsible of two counts of rape of a 16-year-old woman, Lauren Taylor – now aged 29 – who waived her proper to anonymity.

Provan met her on a blind date after mendacity about his age in 2010.

Ex-officers’ pensions can solely usually be blocked if the offending has been carried out in connection to their police service.

Provan’s pension is reportedly £10,000 a yr.

He was a serving officer within the Met Police East Area Command Unit on the time of his offences.

The officer went below the radar till Ms Taylor got here ahead in 2016 to report she had been twice raped by him.

Provan was jailed for 9 years in 2018 after being convicted of raping Ms Taylor, following a retrial – however served three years and three months in jail earlier than a profitable enchantment.

Now, Mr Khan is searching for to strip the rapist of his pension, however can’t achieve this in its entirety – Provan is entitled to maintain not less than 35% of his contributions.

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A spokesman for Mr Khan’s workplace stated: “Following the conviction of Adam Provan for these truly horrendous crimes, the Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime (MOPAC) are pursuing forfeiture of this former officer’s pension.”

MOPAC had began the pension forfeiture course of following Proven’s first conviction, however this was paused because of the enchantment and retrial.

It will now search permission from the Home Secretary Suella Braverman to dam Provan’s pension, and if profitable, will resolve how a lot of the pension needs to be eliminated.

Home Office steerage states forfeiture can solely be utilized for when an officer’s offence has been licensed by the Home Secretary as “liable to lead to a serious loss of confidence in the public service” or “gravely injurious to the interests of the state”.

Ms Braverman beforehand backed the mayor to have serial rapist David Carrick‘s £22,000 a yr pension frozen.