Met rape officer in sex case claims earned £400,000 while he was suspended
A RAPE detective accused of making sexual advances to victims and who was caught offering cocaine to women was sacked yesterday – after being suspended on full pay for seven years.
Detective Inspector Warren Arter, 53, is estimated to have earned about £400,000 since he was suspended by Scotland Yard in 2016 over claims that he abused his role ‘for a sexual purpose’. The married officer is accused of pestering victims of sexual offences between 2006 and 2013 when he was a detective sergeant leading an award-winning rape investigation team in the Metropolitan Police.
Now it can be revealed the drugtaking officer offered to supply Class A drugs to several women and photographed himself in front of a line of cocaine. Arter spent two years between 2016 and 2018 buying cocaine and ecstasy and sent out text messages offering to supply drugs to others while he was in the Met’s Sapphire squad.
Police found a photograph of him on his sofa in front of a mirror with lines of white powder and a card on it on a coffee table in his home. Another image showed plastic bags containing white powder on scales. The Crown Prosecution Service decided not to charge him with dealing offences, but Arter was still left facing a three-day gross misconduct hearing, which he failed to attend this week.
Yesterday he was barred from policing after his role in cocaine-fuelled parties where he turned a blind eye to drugtaking and suspected exploitation was revealed.
He was found to have breached police standards of professional behaviour.
Arter will now face a secondary hearing over the claims he abused his position for a sexual purpose.
Two ex-Scotland Yard officers faced jail yesterday after admitting swapping thousands of child abuse images. Retired Jack Addis, 63, and Jeremy Laxton, 62, served in the West Area Basic Command Unit between 1997 and 2002. Serving Chief Inspector Richard Watkinson, 49, was found dead on the day he was due to be charged with similar offences.