New shame of Met as schools officer admits sex with girl, 14
A SCHOOL liaison officer for the Met Police yesterday admitted having sex with a 14-year-old girl and possessing indecent images of children as young as two.
Some of paedophile PC Hussain Chehab’s shocking offences took place when he was a serving officer whose duties included meeting parents and children at school gates in north London.
The 22-year-old is facing jail after pleading guilty to four counts of sexual activity with a child, one of sexual communication with a child and three counts of making indecent photographs of children.
The revelations come as Scotland Yard grapples with the fallout from last week’s David Carrick scandal, after the beleaguered force was found to have had one of Britain’s worst rapists lurking within its ranks for 20 years.
Chehab had sex with the schoolgirl on at least two occasions between March and September 2019, when he was aged 19.
Wood Green Crown Court also heard that the officer was found with 882 still and moving indecent images of children on his devices while a Met officer.
Of these, 293 were Category A images – the most serious – and some were said to have been of children aged just two.
Sarah Ellis, defending Chehab, said the images had come to be on his devices due to membership of chat groups, adding he did not seek images of the youngest children himself.
‘He will say that yes he had an interest in teenagers but he does not have an interest in children as young as two,’ she told the court.
Judge John Dodd, KC, released him on bail under strict conditions he must not contact his victim or have unsupervised contact with anyone aged under 18.
But he warned Chehab, from Barnet, north London, that he faced a lengthy prison term.
‘ You have admitted some extremely serious offences and I don’t want you to misunderstand – you must prepare yourself for a prison sentence,’ Judge Dodd said.
Chehab was arrested in July 2021 before being charged in September last year.
His crimes come as the Met urgently reviews about 1,100 officers and staff who have had complaints about domestic abuse or sexual offending made about them in the last decade in the wake of the Carrick scandal.
Last Monday firearms officer Carrick, 48, admitted 49 charges against a dozen women including 24 counts of rape committed during a 17-year campaign of horrific offending.
‘An interest in teenagers’