Met Police officer, 28, is CLEARED of raping woman at five-star London hotel after prosecutors dropped the case against him
- PC Adam Zaman, 28, was cleared of rape after prosecution dropped the case
- He had denied attacking a woman at five-star Andaz Hotel in Liverpool Street
- Officer, based with East Area Command Unit, had been suspended from his post
A Metropolitan Police officer accused of rape has today been cleared of charges after prosecutors dropped the case against him.
PC Adam Zaman, 28, of Romford, east London, was alleged to have attacked the woman at the five star Andaz Hotel in Liverpool Street on October 24.
The officer, based with the East Area Command Unit, who was off-duty at the time, had always ‘strenuously denied’ the allegation.
Mr Zaman was suspended from his post with Scotland Yard, which he has held since 2016, and the matter was referred to the Independent Office for Police Conduct.
PC Adam Zaman, 28, has today been cleared of charges after prosecutors dropped the case against him
Pictured: The exterior of the Andaz Hotel in Liverpool Street in the City of London
PC Zaman denied the allegation and was due to stand trial, but the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) offered no evidence against him at a hearing at the Royal Courts of Justice in London on Thursday.
CPS lawyers alleged at an earlier hearing that Pc Zaman had shown the woman his warrant card and told her he was an officer when he met her at a club in Romford before they travelled to the hotel together.
They also claimed the woman sent concerned texts to friends and British Transport Police during the journey, and that Pc Zaman showed his warrant card to hotel staff – who were concerned because the woman was intoxicated.
However, at a short hearing before Mrs Justice Cheema Grubb on Thursday, Pc Zaman was cleared of any wrongdoing.
Pc Zaman, who was released on bail in December, did not attend the hearing.
Alison Hunter QC, for the CPS, told the court that ‘the prosecution have taken a decision to offer no further evidence in this case’.
She said she would not go into detailed evidence, but highlighted that the CPS had a duty to ‘review all matters’.
Ms Hunter said there were matters of ‘significant concern’ that when ‘objectively assessed’ alongside representations from Pc Zaman meant that there was no longer a ‘realistic’ prospect of conviction.
The court heard that the complainant had been informed of her ‘right to review’ and Ms Hunter explained that the CPS’s decision had been made at the ‘highest levels’.
Mrs Justice Cheema-Grubb formally entered a not guilty verdict to the charge of rape.
Pc Zaman’s acquittal comes just two days after charges were dropped in another high-profile case, as four men accused over the shooting of black equal rights campaigner Sasha Johnson were cleared on Tuesday.
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