Cop Cliff Mitchell gets life sentence for assaulting woman at knifepoint

A police officer who told a woman she had met the devil after he tied her hands behind her back and assaulted her at knifepoint has been jailed for life. PC Cliff Mitchell, 24, was caught after the terrified victim ran through the streets of Hackbridge, Surrey, screaming ‘he held a knife up to me’. She said she had been forced into a house by Mitchell, who then made her get into his car. Mitchell was convicted by a jury…