Serial predator ex-Met Police officer who repeatedly raped a female colleague and teenager, 16, after lying about his age on ‘blind date from hell’ is jailed for 16 years
- Judge told Adam Provan, 44, he had a ‘cold-blooded entitlement to sex’
A ‘Jekyll and Hyde’ former Metropolitan Police officer who repeatedly raped a female colleague and a 16-year-old girl has been jailed for 16 years with a further eight on extended licence.
Adam Provan, 44, of Newmarket, Suffolk, was found guilty of raping a fellow police officer six times between 2003 and 2005, and twice raping a GCSE student he met on a ‘hellish’ blind date after lying about his age in 2010.
As sentencing began at Wood Green Crown Court on Tuesday, Judge Noel Lucas KC said the ‘persistence and seriousness’ of his offending was clear.
He said the particularly ‘troubling’ aspect was that he was a police officer at the time of the offences and ‘someone members of the public have an entitlement to feel was someone of the highest trustworthiness’.
The judge told Provan: ‘By your actions, you brought disgrace on the police force.’
Former Met Police officer Adam Provan (Metropolitan Police/PA)
Provan (pictured leaving court) had initially been convicted of raping the 16-year-old victim after a retrial in 2018 and jailed for nine years
Judge Lucas told Provan he had displayed a ‘cold-blooded entitlement to sex’ then immediately behaved as if everything was ‘completely normal’.
He found the defendant met the criteria for being regarded as a ‘dangerous’ offender.
He added: ‘You have shown not the slightest remorse or understanding of what you have put (the female officer) through.’
The judge said he was troubled by the way the Met handled the female police officer’s initial complaints against Provan’s behaviour in 2005.
He said those who dealt with them at the Met ‘were more concerned with looking after one of their own than taking her seriously’ and had an investigation been taken forward, the 16-year-old victim may have been spared.
The judge also paid tribute to both victims, saying they had been ‘extremely courageous’ in reading out their impact statements in court.
Provan had initially been convicted of raping the 16-year-old victim after a retrial in 2018 and jailed for nine years. He was sacked from the Met the following year.
He served three years and three months in prison before he successfully appealed against his conviction and his case was sent for a third trial.
Provan (pictured) is set to be jailed at his sentencing hearing at Wood Green Crown Court on Tuesday
At that trial in May, six new counts of rape were added, relating to earlier offences against the serving Metropolitan Police officer.
On Monday, Provan’s wider history of predatory behaviour was laid bare at Wood Green Crown Court on the first day of his two-day sentencing.
Prosecutor Anthony Metzer KC said Provan had abused his position as an officer to gain young women’s trust and had ‘aspects of a Jekyll and Hyde character’.
He said Provan had ‘an extended history of allegations’ of sexual misconduct dating back to the 1990s, including ‘stalkerish behaviour’ and culminating in the rapes of the 16-year-old girl.
The defendant had 751 female contacts in his mobile phone, indicating a ‘fascination bordering on the obsessive’ with young women, Judge Noel Lucas KC said.
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Mr Metzer said the details on Provan’s phone ‘strongly suggested’ there was sexual activity with the women, many of whom were young.
In 2005 another female police officer had reported receiving ‘nuisance’ messages from Provan, but the complaint was dealt with ‘informally’ and not taken further.
Provan, who watched teenage pornography online, had also allegedly contacted another 16-year-old girl after she gave her details as a witness.
Julia Smart KC, defending, said all the allegations were disputed by Provan.
Speaking in court from behind a screen, the teenage victim, who is now in her 20s, said: ‘The day I met Adam Provan changed my life forever.
‘No prison sentence will take away the harm Adam Provan has caused me. No amount of justice will make me forget the date from hell.
‘Even though I tried my best to block it out I will never forget how scared I was when the assault took place, and 13 years later reliving my worst nightmare.’
She said it was ‘sickening’ to be told Provan really was a police officer as he had claimed when they first met.
Giving evidence over three trials was ‘traumatic’ and she felt ‘personally attacked’, she said.
The other victim, who is still a serving officer, said she ‘lived in constant fear’ Provan would kill her and felt he saw himself as ‘untouchable’.
The officer told the court she felt the police had not dealt with Provan and failed to protect her.
She added: ‘I feel guilty for people after me who came in contact with Adam, and if they suffered abuse, this has preyed on my mind.’
Judge Lucas hailed the victims’ bravery as he thanked them for giving their statements in court
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