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22.08.2023 - 17:29 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
A former Metropolitan Police officer has been jailed for 16 years for a series of rapes spanning eight years. Ex-PC Adam Provan’s predatory behaviour, which dated back to the 1990s, was finally brought to light after one of his victims came forward, Wood Green Crown Court heard.
Between 2003 and 2005, he also repeatedly raped a female police officer and terrorised her so she feared for her life, the court was told. Prosecutors said Provan was obsessed with young women, had viewed teenage pornography and collected more than 700 female contacts on his mobile phone.
Another female officer complained in 2005 that Provan sent her “nuisance” messages but nothing was done and the issue was dealt with “informally”, the court was told. He also allegedly contacted a 16-year-old girl after she gave her details as a witness in 2003.
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Two other women made allegations but a rape case was not proceeded with and a sexual assault case ended in acquittal. In 2016, Lauren Taylor came forward to say Provan raped her on a blind date when she was 16 in 2010. Ms Taylor, now 29, had agreed to go to the cinema with Provan after he lied about his age, saying he was 22, and said he was a police officer.
Instead, Provan, then 31, took her to woods, where he had sex with her even though she repeatedly told him no. Speaking of her ordeal in an interview with the PA news agency after waiving her right to anonymity, she said: “Basically he raped me. I remember holding on to the tree.
"I was kind of hugging the tree like emotional support, pretended I was anywhere else in the world but back there. I remember it can’t have been long, but it felt like
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