sorry, just to make sure everybody knows, this is a serial rapist who has come to light, who carried out his deeds over multiple years, who had been up for multiple investigations and yet still was operating. and it was only because of an incredibly brave officer who listened to the testimony of the family in the wake of sarah everard why this man is now injail. exactly right. and so you had a series of allegations over many years, all of which were investigated, many not by the met, because they took place elsewhere. they re investigated, files went to cps. cps said there wasn t enough evidence to prosecute. and no one everjoined the dots within the met to say, well, these cases might not on their own get to that threshold, but there s a pattern of behaviour here which is deeply, deeply, deeply troubling. for example, reporting of rape has quadrupled in the last decade. that s an extraordinary growth. frankly, we haven t in policing