Overview

• He was sentenced at St Albans Crown Court to 16 years plus a two-year extended licence and must serve two-thirds before parole consideration.
• Cummings, 26, was convicted at a retrial of two rapes, three counts of coercive controlling behaviour, two counts of voyeurism and one count of stalking, having admitted two further stalking offences.
• The judge described offending between July 2019 and February 2024 as a near five-year campaign of abuse marked by relentless messaging and a repeated pattern across three women.
• Evidence showed he used Life360, TeamViewer and home security cameras, created multiple social accounts, sent thousands of messages in a month and leveraged his warrant card to intimidate victims.
• The investigation began with a report in February 2024, a second victim came forward after media coverage, a third was identified via a phone download in April, and he was later dismissed from the Met for gross misconduct as CPS and police condemned his predatory behaviour.