Police Officer Says He’ll Quit After Paedophile He Arrested Is Spared Jail

A Metropolitan Police officer has vowed to “actually quit” the force after a judge spared a convicted paedophile from jail time.

The officer, a member of the Met Police child sexual abuse team, shook his head after Recorder Maryam Syed gave Jordan Cave, 28, a two-year suspended prison sentence.

Cave, a former IT technician at The Latymer School in Edmonton, north London, was found with 4,000 indecent images of children and a video showing the sexual assault of a 12-year-old boy.

He had also written a commentary of the 10-minute video and other sexual fantasies about children.

You would think was worth some prison time, right? Well apparently not because Recorder Syed (below) gave him the suspended sentence.

Cave will instead have to carry out 200 hours of community service and sign the sex offenders’ register.

Spotting the officer’s reaction, Recorder Syed said:  ‘[The officer] is shaking his head, but I do recognise the hard work done by [him] and his colleagues.’

The officer then left the court saying: ‘I will actually quit the police’.

This officer was on the team whose job it is to look at sexual abuse images, identify victims and offenders and then capture them. Imagine doing all that and finally getting your man in handcuffs, only to witness the judge give them a suspended sentence.

In fairness, Recorder Syed explained that normally she would hand down a four-year prison sentence, but after hearing about Cave’s autism and ADHD, she decided a suspended sentence was more appropriate.

She told Cave: ‘This is not a lenient sentence. It’s a deliberately onerous, hard package, having read many expert reports, that will punish you and protect the public, dealing with the root cause of your offending.

‘If there’s any breach of this sentence in any way, the only place you are going to is prison… I’m giving you an opportunity to make amends.’

His suspended sentence includes a four-month curfew, 200 hours of unpaid work, 20 days of rehabilitation activity, and 26 sessions on a ‘difficult’ sex offender course. Sounds long but it’s better than prison. One of the perks of having autism and ADHD, I suppose.

For the man who sexually assaulted a 12-year-old on a British Airways flight and claimed he mistook her for his wife, click HERE.