Met Police officer raped two women he met on nights out, court hears
Suspended Pc Rupert Edwards has denied raping two women in 11 days.

A serving Metropolitan Police officer raped two women in 11 days after meeting them in bars while off duty, a court has heard.
Suspended Pc Rupert Edwards, 30, is alleged to have raped one woman in Epsom, Surrey, on August 26 2022 and the other in Lambeth, south London, on September 5 2022, Inner London Crown Court heard on Tuesday.
Edwards, from Ashtead, Surrey, denies attacking the complainants, who are in their 20s and 30s.
Prosecutor Robert Brown said the first complainant met Edwards on a night-out and later danced with him, before ākissing the defendant, who she found attractiveā at a bar.
They later got a cab back to her home and had consensual sex āat least once, possibly twiceā, Mr Brown said.
The complainant claims she later told him: āI canāt go againā but the defendant pulled her leg up and initiated further sexual intercourse, Mr Brown said.
The prosecutor said she did not consent to this and the defendant knew that, but ācarried on regardlessā.
He said the woman slept until noon the next day, at which point Edwards left.
She then ātried to put the incident out of her mind and get on with her lifeā, before it was later reported to police in November 2022.
A video of her police interview in December 2022 was played to jurors, in which she appeared tearful as she recounted the alleged rape.
She said: āI was saying to myself in my head: āIām being raped right now,ā but itās like I froze. I just couldnāt do or say anything else (after saying āI canāt go againā), so I just let it happen.ā
The woman later added: āHe didnāt say anything at this point but in my mind I thought: āWell, Iāve said it now, I should only have to say once.'ā
Mr Brown said the second count of rape on the indictment relates to another woman who was interviewed by police on September 6, 2022.
She said she had met Edwards on a night-out and recalled kissing him before they took a taxi back to her home, jurors heard.
Mr Brown said the woman recalls engaging in consensual sex with him at the address, but said she ātold him from the outset there could be no intercourseā because they did not have any condoms.
The woman said Edwards agreed to this but that she was later awoken when he raped her, jurors heard.
Mr Brown said she challenged him on what he was doing, and Edwards then apologised and left.
He added: āShe says she was angry and confused because he had told her he was a police officer and so she sent him a text (at 4.51am) thanking him for destroying her faith in the justice system.ā
She then called 999 and reported the incident to the police, he said.
The officer, attached to the South West Basic Command Unit, was then arrested on suspicion of raping her in September 2022, and was bailed and suspended from duty.
He was taken to a police station and interviewed under caution, and, in a prepared statement, he denied the allegation, Mr Brown said.
On December 8 2022, he was further arrested on suspicion of raping the first complainant and charged the following day.
He was taken to the same police station, interviewed under caution and denied the allegation, Mr Brown said.
Mr Brown said that in a prepared statement given to police Edwards claimed that all sexual activity with the first claimant was consensual and at no point did she indicate that she was not consenting.
He said Edwards told police the second complainant never said that she did not want sexual intercourse without contraception, and that they had engaged in consensual sexual activity.
The trial continues.