Senior Met Police officer charged with attempted rape and sexual assault

One woman claimed the offences took place when the officer was off duty

Metropolitan Police officer Ruby Begum is accused of failing to disclose her links to a Jihadi woman living inside a so-called Islamic State caliphate in Syria (Dominic Lipinski/PA) (PA Archive)

A senior Met officer has been charged with attempted rape and sexual assault on a woman while he was off duty.

Superintendent Jamie Gordon, attached to the South East Command Unit covering the boroughs of Bexley, Greenwich and Lewisham, was charged on Monday, 4 November, Scotland Yard said.

He was bailed and will appear at Westminster Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday, 4 December.

The alleged offences were reported by one woman who said they had taken place on 8 December and 19 December 2023, when the officer was off duty.

He was arrested on 19 January and suspended from duty.

It comes after another police officer has been charged with driving offences after a moped rider was killed in a collision with a police van.

Cristopher De Carvalho Guedes, 26, was riding alongside his cousin heading toward a snack bar when he was struck by a marked police van in Enfield, north London suffering fatal injuries to his chest and lungs.

His family urgently called for a probe into his death in October 2022 which sparked an Independent Office of Police Conduct (IOPC) investigation.

The driver of the police vehicle, Constable Ian Brotherton, 32, will appear at Westminster Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday 4 December to face charges of causing death by dangerous driving, and causing death by careless or inconsiderate driving.

An IOPC spokesman said on Monday: “Our investigation began following a mandatory referral from the Met Police.

“At the conclusion of our investigation in April 2024, we decided to refer a file of evidence to the Crown Prosecution Service, which authorised the charges.”