A paedophile Metropolitan Police Safer Colleges officer has been jailed for 5 years over a string of kid intercourse offences together with having intercourse with a 14-year-old lady.
PC Hussain Chehab, 22, was sentenced at Wooden Inexperienced Crown Courtroom on Friday for 4 counts of sexual exercise with a lady aged 13 to fifteen and offences linked to indecent photos of youngsters.
The sexual exercise offences came about between March and September 2019, earlier than Chehab joined the Metropolitan Police the next yr.
They solely got here to gentle when the lady’s household reported in July 2021 that their daughter had been in a sexual relationship with Chehab, which it later emerged started when she was 14.
Chehab additionally admitted three counts of constructing indecent images of a kid and one among participating in sexual communication with a toddler.
Within the trial, Wooden Inexperienced Crown Courtroom additionally heard that the officer was discovered with 882 nonetheless and shifting indecent photos of youngsters on his units whereas a Met officer.
Paedophile Metropolitan Police Safer Colleges officer PC Hussain Chehab, 22, (pictured left) has been jailed for 5 years over a string of kid intercourse offences together with having intercourse with a 14-year-old lady
He was sentenced at Wooden Inexperienced Crown Courtroom (file photograph) on Friday for 4 counts of sexual exercise with a lady aged 13 to fifteen and offences linked to indecent photos of youngsters
The Met stated a few of these offences had been dedicated whereas he was posted at a north London college between Could and August 2021.
He was dismissed from Scotland Yard with out discover, with Barbara Gray, the Met’s assistant commissioner accountable for professionalism, telling The Times earlier this month: ‘These kinds of offences undermine the general public’s confidence within the police service.’
Sir Mark Rowley apologised to Chehab’s victims when he appeared on the London Meeting Police and Crime Committee in January of this yr.
He stated: ‘The sexual contact offences came about earlier than he joined the police however sadly they weren’t recognized. After which while he was within the police he was participating in what you would possibly broadly describe as grooming exercise.
‘It’s ghastly and clearly you apologise to the victims, they should not be dealing with that by the hands of a police officer.’
No verdict was recorded in an extra 4 counts of constructing indecent images of a kid, which the decide ordered to lie on file.
An accelerated misconduct course of shall be held in gentle of the responsible pleas, the Met stated.
The revelations come as Scotland Yard grapples with the fallout from the David Carrick scandal, after the beleaguered pressure was discovered to have had one among Britain’s worst rapists lurking inside its ranks for 20 years.
Chehab had intercourse with the schoolgirl on no less than two events between March 1 and November 16, 2019, when he was aged 18 and earlier than he joined the Met Police.
Chehab joined the Met on March 30, 2020 and got here to police consideration in July 2021 after a grievance was made.
He was arrested the next month, whereas he was working as a safer faculties officer in a secondary college in Enfield, which is without doubt one of the boroughs he coated alongside Haringey.
Case supervisor on the misconduct listening to was PC Christie Koller, who instructed the listening to that after officers seized Chabab’s private units, they found indecent photos of youngsters and textual content messages with the 14-year-old schoolgirl.
She added that Chebab discredited the police service together with his behavour.
Chehab was served with the misconduct papers on February 21, however didn’t attend the listening to.
Within the trial, Wooden Inexperienced Crown Courtroom additionally heard that the officer was discovered with 882 nonetheless and shifting indecent photos of youngsters on his units whereas a Met officer (file photograph)
The sexual exercise offences came about between March and September 2019, earlier than Chehab joined the Metropolitan Police the next yr. They solely got here to gentle when the lady’s household reported in July 2021 that their daughter had been in a sexual relationship with Chehab (pictured earlier this month), which it later emerged started when she was 14
Sir Mark Rowley apologised to Chehab’s victims when he appeared on the London Meeting Police and Crime Committee in January of this yr (pictured)
Of those, 293 had been Class A photos – essentially the most severe – and a few had been stated to have been of youngsters aged simply two.
Sarah Ellis, defending Chehab, stated the pictures had come to be on his units as a consequence of membership of discussion groups, including he didn’t search photos of the youngest kids himself.
‘He’ll say that sure he had an curiosity in youngsters however he doesn’t have an curiosity in kids as younger as two,’ she instructed the court docket.
Choose John Dodd, KC, launched him on bail below strict situations he should not contact his sufferer or have unsupervised contact with anybody aged below 18.
However he warned Chehab, from Barnet, north London, that he confronted a prolonged jail time period.
‘You have got admitted some extraordinarily severe offences and I do not need you to misconceive – you should put together your self for a jail sentence,’ Choose Dodd stated.
