A Metropolitan Police (Met) officer has been dismissed after raping a woman in a police locker room.
The incident happened last March after the off-duty Pc took the drunk woman to St Pancras station in north London.
The victim, in her early 20s, made a complaint but the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) decided there was insufficient evidence to press charges.
But a Met Police misconduct hearing found he had non-consensual sex.
The woman had drunk several glasses of wine at a party at a hotel in central London and went outside when she began to feel unwell.
CCTV showed the 43-year-old Pc, who had been drinking in a nearby pub, starting to talk to the woman.
He then led her away from her party to nearby St Pancras train station where he was due to sleep in a locker room before starting work early the next day.
In interview he said during the night they had consensual sex.
“The actions of this officer will rightly appal the public as they have appalled me”
Rachel Cerfontyne IPCC Commissioner
When the woman returned home she told her friend she had little memory of the evening after leaving the party.
She said she recalled waking up to find a man having sex with her.
The matter was referred to the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC), who managed the investigation and the evidence given to the CPS.
A CPS spokesman said there was insufficient evidence to prosecute as it has to prove the offence occurred beyond all reasonable doubt.
But the Met’s disciplinary hearing findings, based on the information gathered by the IPCC inquiry, are based on the balance of all probabilities, and found he had non-consensual sex with the woman.
The IPCC refused to name the officer as he had not been charged with an offence.
IPCC Commissioner Rachel Cerfontyne said: “The actions of this officer will rightly appal the public as they have appalled me.
“His behaviour was in my view predatory and he exploited the vulnerability of a young woman.
“His conduct would be contemptible from anyone – from a police officer it is nothing short of despicable.”
Commander Mark Simmons said: “This officer acted in an intolerable way and it is only right that once such dreadful behaviour was found proven the man was dismissed.”
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