When a hidden camera entered Charing Cross police station, it found not isolated wrongdoing but a culture — officers joking about rape, boasting of violence, calling for immigrants to be shot. Now, more than a year on from that October 2025 broadcast, the Metropolitan Police has dismissed its thirteenth officer, PC Mason O'Connor, for telling a female colleague he hoped she would be raped on her way home. The reckoning is slow, deliberate, and still unfinished — fifteen more cases remain open — and the deeper question it poses is whether institutional exposure can become institutional change.
Thirteenth Met Police officer dismissed over Charing Cross misconduct
Female colleague subjected to threat of sexual violence by officer in position of authority.