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”.