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12/09/2012
Rape Specialist Detective Faked Police Records
A detective constable who specialised in rape cases has admitted faking police records.
30-year-old Ryan Coleman-Farrow pleaded guilty to 13 counts of misconduct in a public office at Southwark Crown Court.
The 13 counts Coleman-Farrow pleaded guilty to relate to 10 rape cases and three cases of sexual assault.
The offences he should have investigated were committed between January 2007 and September 2010, while he was an officer at Kingston-upon-Thames, south-west London, working for Scotland Yard's specialist Sapphire unit.
The court heard he failed to send items for analysis, take witness statements and falsified witness statements.
In one rape case Coleman-Farrow claimed the alleged victim had withdrawn support for the proceedings and in another case the result of forensic tests on exhibits was noted as negative when the tests had not been carried out, the court was told.
He also falsified records of Crown Prosecution Service decisions which had never actually been referred to it.
The cases involved 12 complainants and 11 suspects, and in "almost all" the 13 cases no proceedings had resulted, prosecutor Mark Heywood QC said.
Coleman-Farrow, from St Leonards-on-Sea, will remain on bail until the sentencing on 11 October.
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30-year-old Ryan Coleman-Farrow pleaded guilty to 13 counts of misconduct in a public office at Southwark Crown Court.
The 13 counts Coleman-Farrow pleaded guilty to relate to 10 rape cases and three cases of sexual assault.
The offences he should have investigated were committed between January 2007 and September 2010, while he was an officer at Kingston-upon-Thames, south-west London, working for Scotland Yard's specialist Sapphire unit.
The court heard he failed to send items for analysis, take witness statements and falsified witness statements.
In one rape case Coleman-Farrow claimed the alleged victim had withdrawn support for the proceedings and in another case the result of forensic tests on exhibits was noted as negative when the tests had not been carried out, the court was told.
He also falsified records of Crown Prosecution Service decisions which had never actually been referred to it.
The cases involved 12 complainants and 11 suspects, and in "almost all" the 13 cases no proceedings had resulted, prosecutor Mark Heywood QC said.
Coleman-Farrow, from St Leonards-on-Sea, will remain on bail until the sentencing on 11 October.
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