Sacked Metropolitan Police officer jailed for 16 years for rape

A former Metropolitan Police constable has been jailed for 16 years after being found guilty of rape, coercive and controlling behaviour, voyeurism and stalking, relating to three women.

Jake Cummings, 26, of Stevenage, Hertfordshire, was a special constable in Dorset when he attacked the first woman, and a police constable in London when the offences took place against the other two women.

Jurors at trials at St Albans Crown Court heard he had been in separate relationships with the women over a period of nearly five years.

Judge Bilal Siddique told Cummings, of Lytton Way, what happened could “only be described as nothing other than a campaign of abuse”.

“There are a number of significant aggravating features,” the judge said during sentencing at the same court.

“You abused your position as a police officer to control your victims; this was anything but impulsive behaviour.

“The totality of your offending demonstrates you don’t take no for an answer from women.

“You were a serving police officer. Your offending must have been abundantly obvious to you.”

The judge concluded that Cummings was “dangerous” and posed a risk.

He said he must serve two-thirds of the 16-year sentence before parole could be considered.

Hertfordshire Police said an investigation into Cummings began after a victim made a report in February 2024.

A second victim came forward shortly afterwards and a third victim was identified through analysis of a mobile device.

Cummings, who had also lived in Hemel Hempstead in Hertfordshire, was arrested at his mother’s home in Weymouth, Dorset.

The three women’s victim impact statements were read in court by prosecution barrister James Thacker KC:

• “He always had to know where I was and what I was doing,” said one woman. “He was constantly texting. I was depressed for a long time over what he did to me … it had a significant psychological effect on me. He clearly does not feel that he did anything wrong. That is terrifying.”

• “I lost control of my life,” the second woman said. “I lost a little bit of me really. My dad was in tears a lot.” She said Cummings had called her a “retard”.

• The third woman said: “He made me feel awful every day. I was so terrified no-one would believe me. I was so worried he would walk away [free].”

Cummings had been found guilty of coercive and controlling behaviour, voyeurism and stalking in October 2024 after a trial.

Jurors had not been able to reach verdicts on allegations that he had raped two of the women, but he was convicted of two rapes in July 2025 after a re-trial.

The Metropolitan Police had sacked Cummings in October 2024 after concluding he had committed gross misconduct.

Barrister Campaspe Lloyd-Jacob, who represented Cummings, said: “It has been hard for him to accept his guilt but he does appreciate his responsibilities.”

Miss Lloyd-Jacob said Cummings would undertake whatever courses were available in prison with the aim of making him a “better person” when released.

She told the judge Cummings “was young” and that his father had died by suicide when his son was “very young”.

A Hertfordshire Police spokesperson said between July 2019 and February 2024 Cummings had made the three women’s lives an “absolute misery with his oppressive behaviour”.

Police said the women came from three different parts of the country but all told “very similar stories of harassment and coercive control”.

They said Cummings’ “abusive behaviour” continued after the relationships ended.

Neil Vaughan, of the Crown Prosecution Service, said: “Jake Cummings thought that he was above the law, but his convictions prove otherwise.

“These women did not know one another, but together they painted a compelling picture which laid bare the vile pattern of abuse inflicted by Cummings.”