The cops

It wasn't quite like that, but there's a grain of truth in it.

I was single and was bored one evening, so I went onto the anonymous chatroom Omegle and posted that I was a middle-aged writer looking for a teenage girlfriend.

I had several applications, the winning one being Zoë, who was a 17-year-old schoolgirl at the time. She became my girlfriend for the next two or three years; we split up because she wanted kids and I didn't, but we're still friends and speak regularly. Her father was a multi-multi-multi-millionaire who collected supercars and Zoë had inherited the trait: she had an absolutely insane top-of-the-range Tesla electric sports car that could achieve astounding speeds (particularly here in the Isle of Man, which has no speed limits on the open road).

One of the other people to contact me was Smog, who was 17 at the time. We had a good chat and became great friends, and we've spoken nearly every day ever since. That was a good night's work all round: I gained a sexy schoolgirl girlfriend and made a lifelong friend.

No excuse for dragging their heels on the disciplinary meeting

Your version would certainly have been more memorable!

A Greater Manchester Police officer is facing jail after pleading guilty to attempted rape. Ernesto Ceraldi - who police said 'used an appalling level of violence' - is understood to be a specialist firearms officer and police dog handler within the force.

Lancashire Police said today the 43-year-old admitted attempted rape and a charge of assault occasioning actual bodily harm, following an investigation. Officers were called to an address in Edenfield, near Bury, at 1.23am on April 2 following reports a woman had been attacked and subjected to a serious sexual assault.

Ceraldi, understood to be from the Darwen area of Lancashire, was arrested at the scene. Lancashire Police said he was remanded in custody following the hearing at Preston Crown Court on Wednesday and would be sentenced on June 22.

www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/greater-manchester-police-officer-facing-23864642

What the police did to these women is f*ckin' appalling. Whether those involved will ever get their comeuppance is highly doubtful, but the reasons behind their infiltration should be a concern to all of us. 
For the state to do this to any individual is disgusting, but to do it to so many is unforgiveable. 

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/may/11/it-was-as-if-he-set-out-to-destroy-my-sanity-how-the-spy-cops-lied-their-way-into-womens-hearts-and-beds

A serving Metropolitan police officer has been charged with rape after an alleged incident on Brighton beach last year. Laurence Knight, 33, was arrested on 28 July 2021 after a woman reported being raped 11 days earlier.

Sussex police said the officer has been summoned to appear at Brighton magistrates court on 23 June. The force added that Knight was not on duty at the time of the alleged offence.

A statement said: “Sussex police has arrested a man after a woman reported being raped on Brighton beach on Saturday, 17 July 2021.

“Laurence Knight, 33, who is a Met police officer, was arrested on suspicion of rape on 28 July and released on bail. On 27 May he was summoned to appear at Brighton magistrates court on 23 June to face a charge of rape.

“The officer was not on duty at the time of the reported offence. The victim will continue to receive support from specialist officers throughout the judicial process.”

The Met said Knight, a sergeant attached to Met Detention, had been suspended from duty. Chief Supt Pete Gardner, in charge of Met Detention – the force’s custody command unit – said: “We know people will rightly be concerned to hear about this very serious charge against a serving police officer.

“We absolutely share that concern and I am thankful to Sussex police for their thorough investigation and the continued specialist support they are providing to the victim.

“The Met’s Directorate of Professional Standards are fully aware and misconduct matters will be dealt with once the criminal proceedings have concluded.”

Scotland Yard made a mandatory referral to the Independent Office for Police Conduct, which determined the misconduct investigation should be led by the Met.

Police links to organised crime

Corrupt Cops: What the Met Knew: Dispatches

Is the Metropolitan Police force institutionally corrupt? Dispatches investigates concerns senior officers were linked to organised crime and that murders went unsolved because of corruption.

www.channel4.com/programmes/corrupt-cops-what-the-met-knew-dispatches