IOPC investigating senior officer’s alleged description of rape complaints as ‘regretful sex’

Sir Stephen House denies making the comments to a Home Office adviser at a Scotland Yard meeting in January 2022

The police watchdog is investigating alleged comments made by one of the UK’s most senior officers about the “bulk” of rape complaints being “regretful sex”.

Sir Stephen House denies making the comments to a Home Office adviser at a Scotland Yard meeting in January 2022 – when he was Deputy Commissioner of the Metropolitan police. He later served as acting commissioner after the resignation of Dame Cressida Dick.