Met PC sent indecent child images to undercover officer posing as girl

Ex-PC Thomas Thorpe is due to be sentenced in May

A Met Police officer has been convicted of child sexual offences after he sent indecent images to an undercover officer posing as a 12-year-old girl.

Ex-PC Thomas Thorpe, who resigned from the Met before a misconduct process could be carried out, was found guilty at Kingston Crown Court.

The jury heard how an officer from the West Midlands force received indecent photographs from Thorpe over a period of four weeks in 2019.

Thorpe is due to be sentenced in May.

He was convicted of:

• Three counts of making an indecent photograph of a child

• Attempting to cause a child under 13 to look at an image of sexual activity

• Attempting to cause a child under 13 to look at engage in sexual activity

• Attempting to engage in sexual communication with a child

Thorpe was arrested in 2019 and a search of devices found at his home revealed indecent images of children, as well as the images that he sent to the supposed girl.

A Met Police spokesperson said Thorpe's behaviour "was abhorrent" and that had he not already left the force he would have been found guilty of gross misconduct and sacked without notice.

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