Police officer denies assaulting two women

A Met Police officer has denied raping a colleague and a second woman in less than a fortnight. PC Rupert Edwards, 29, is accused of carrying out the attacks in Epsom, Surrey, on 26 August and in Lambeth, southwest London, on 5 September 2022. Edwards, based at the Southwest Basic Command Unit, was off-duty at the time of the alleged assaults and has since been suspended. The first woman was a Met Police colleague who met Edwards for a date…