Met officer cleared of assaulting second woman he met in bar

A Met Police officer was cleared by a jury of raping a woman he met at a bar while off-duty after a retrial today (fri). PC Rupert Edwards, 31, had been accused of carrying out two sex attacks on women within the space of 11 days in 2022. Edwards was was said to have assaulted a woman he met at the Slug and Lettuce in Richmond, southwest London, on 25 August 2022. She had claimed the officer carried out the…