Ex-Metropolitan Police officer guilty of rape

Jake Cummings has been convicted of rape

A man has been convicted of raping a woman while he was a Metropolitan Police officer.

Jake Cummings, 26, who had been a special constable in Dorset before working in London, denied rape but was found guilty following a trial at St Albans Crown Court.

Cummings, of Lytton Way, Stevenage, was accused of raping two women he had relationships with.

Jurors on Wednesday unanimously found him guilty of raping one woman. They have yet to reach a verdict in relation to the second woman's allegation.

James Thacker KC, leading the prosecution team, told the trial that one woman said she was raped in 2021 and the other in 2024.

Cummings has been found guilty of the 2024 charge. Jurors are due to continue discussing the other charge on Thursday.

One of the women said she was raped while still in a relationship with Cummings. The other said she was raped shortly after their relationship ended.

The two women lived in different parts of the country and did not know each other, Mr Thacker told the trial.

He said Cummings had been arrested at his mother's home in Weymouth, Dorset.

Jake Cummings has been on trial at St Albans Crown Court

Cummings denied both rape charges and said the sex was consensual.

Campaspe Lloyd-Jacob, his barrister, told jurors that they could not be sure he was guilty of rape.

Miss Lloyd-Jacob said the question was whether Cummings "could not reasonably have believed" that the women were consenting.

Cummings has already been convicted of committing other offences against the two women, jurors have heard.

He was found guilty of controlling and coercive behaviour in an earlier trial and has admitted stalking.

Jurors in an earlier trial failed to reach verdicts on the rape charges and, as a result, this trial was held.

Cummings served as a special constable in Dorset from April 2018 before joining the Met as a regular officer in November 2019. He is no longer an officer.