Trainee PC who made rape joke banned from police

A trainee police officer who joked about raping a colleague has been told he would have been sacked had he not already resigned.

Former PC Kennedy Lungu was training with Thames Valley Police in Sulhamstead, Berkshire, when he said "no does not really mean no" while discussing sex.

Other vulgar remarks he was found to have made by a police misconduct panel are too graphic to publish.

Banning him from policing for life, the panel said it could find no mitigating factors on Mr Lungu's behalf "other than noting that he was very early in his career".

The panel was told that a female officer was retrieving her bag at the training centre while other colleagues including Mr Lungu were waiting to get theirs.

Mr Lungu told the woman to hurry up and, when asked what he would do if she did not, he joked he would rape her.

It also found that after Mr Lungu and his class watched a video about domestic abuse, he made a comment to the effect that the "woman in question deserved it".

The panel said a colleague recalled "many times arriving in class and former officer Lungu talking about sex and talking at lunch about sex."

His behaviour was found to have been "intentional, deliberate, targeted and planned" and that it "amounted to abuse of women and girls".

Mr Lungu did not attend last week's hearing, held at TVP's headquarters in Kidlington, Oxfordshire.

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