Adam Provan: Former Metropolitan Police officer jailed for 16 years for raping lady and woman

Former Metropolitan Police officer Adam Provan has been jailed 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, who he met on a blind date after mendacity about his age in 2010.

Judge Noel Lucas stated he was troubled by the best way the Met dealt with the feminine police officer’s preliminary complaints about Provan’s behaviour in 2005.

He stated those that handled the complaints on the Met “were more concerned with looking after one of their own than taking her seriously” – and had an investigation been taken ahead, the teenage sufferer might have been spared.

Sentencing Provan at Wood Green Crown Court, the decide stated he displayed a “cold-blooded entitlement to sex” then instantly behaved as if every thing was “completely normal”.

He concluded that the “persistence and seriousness” of Provan’s offending was clear, including: “By your actions, you brought disgrace on the police force.”

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

He was jailed for 9 years in 2018 after being convicted of raping the 16-year-old sufferer following a retrial – and served three years and three months in jail earlier than a efficiently attraction.

When his case was despatched for a 3rd trial in May, six new counts of rape had been added – referring to earlier offences in opposition to the serving Metropolitan Police officer.

On the primary day of a two-day sentencing listening to, it was revealed that Provan had 751 feminine contacts in his cell.

Prosecutor Anthony Metzer KC stated particulars from the telephone “strongly suggested” there was sexual exercise with the ladies, lots of whom had been younger.

Mr Metzer stated Provan used his place to realize the belief of younger girls and had “aspects of a Jekyll And Hyde character”.

He added that Provan had an “extended history of allegations” of sexual misconduct relationship again to the Nineteen Nineties.

Speaking on the courtroom from behind a display screen, the teenage sufferer, who’s now in her 20s, stated: “The day I met Adam Provan changed my life forever.

“No jail sentence will take away the hurt Adam Provan has brought on me. No quantity of justice will make me neglect the date from hell.

“Even though I tried my best to block it out I will never forget how scared I was when the assault took place, and 13 years later reliving my worst nightmare.”

Being informed that Provan actually was a police officer, as he had claimed to be, was “sickening”, she stated.

The different sufferer, nonetheless a serving officer, stated she had “lived in constant fear” that Provan would kill her, and felt he noticed himself as “untouchable”.

She informed the courtroom that she additionally felt the police had not handled Provan and had failed to guard her.