The Met Police has admitted ‘victim-blaming’ after a vulnerable woman who was groomed by an officer from the same unit as Wayne Couzens said she was told ‘sexual predators only exist in the minds of Mail readers’.
Lorraine, whose name has been changed to protect her identity, was groomed by former officer Phil Hunter before the force wrote to her GP and suggested she had ‘fabricated’ the allegations she reported.
She first came into contact with Hunter, now 60, after reporting alleged stalking and harassment at the hands of an ex-partner, when the cop attended her address to conduct a welfare check in 2017.
Two months ago, Hunter was found to have committed gross misconduct after pursuing an inappropriate relationship for a sexual purpose with Lorraine.
The hearing was told the disgraced officer was a ‘sexual predator’ who abused his position in the police.
It brought to some conclusion an ordeal Lorraine first reported in 2019.
Now the force has issued a statement apologising for a…