Ex-Met police officer convicted of multiple counts of rape

Cliff Mitchell was recruited to Met despite being accused of raping a child

A man recruited by the Metropolitan police as an officer despite being accused of raping a child was convicted on Wednesday of 13 counts of raping a woman and a child, as well as kidnap.

Cliff Mitchell, 24, was caught only when a passerby saw a female victim running through a street in Hackbridge, south west London, shouting: “He’s going to kill me, he held a knife up to me, I’m so scared.”