Another, now-former Metropolitan Police officer has been exposed after a misconduct panel found Ian Steel guilty of sexually grooming TV presenter Jackie Adedeji. Steel abused his position of power and used a fake identity to “fulfil his racialised sexual fantasy”. The panel said he would have been sacked for gross misconduct had he not already quit.

Adedeji, who waived her right to anonymity, said the finding had liberated her:

For the first time in 10 years, I feel free. The shame has disappeared, the silence has disappeared. I found my voice all over again. I’ve stood up for the 22-year-old version of me that felt voiceless. [This has been] the biggest fight of my life. It feels powerful because it’s a classic case of he said, she said, and my story never changed. It doesn’t benefit me to lie and the truth always prevails in the end.

Adedeji first met Steel as a 22-year-old in 2016, in the Shoreditch area of London. Steel claimed to be single and named Danny Stevens. In fact he was in a long-term relationship and had a child. All allegations against Steel were found proven and he has been barred from ever re-joining the police, but escapes criminal consequences.

Steel joins a long list of police sex abusers, rapists and murderers — especially in the Metropolitan Police.

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