Met officer must wait a year for retrial

A Met Police officer accused of raping a woman he met at a bar while off-duty will face a retrial next September. PC Rupert Edwards, 30, had been accused of carrying out two sex attacks on women within the space of 11 days last year. Edwards was acquitted by a jury last month of raping a woman he met at the Slug and Lettuce in Richmond, southwest London, on August 25. She had claimed the officer carried out the assault…