A Metropolitan Police officer quit in disgrace after he was accused of cyber flashing a colleague and sending sexual notes to train passengers. 

PC Luke Stokes was arrested close to midnight on April 9, 2022, after reports that sexual messages were sent via AirDrop to c2c train passengers. 

When he was arrested he is alleged to have reset his phone to destroy the evidence. 

A file was passed to the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) but PC Stokes did not face criminal charges over the incident.

“The CPS determined that it did not meet the threshold to bring a prosecution and no further criminal action would be taken," a Met Police spokesperson said.

One of his colleagues then came forward to say she had been sent an unwanted sexual image by PC Stokes two years earlier. 

His colleague asked him not to send her a sexual picture but despite her protestations PC Stokes did send a photo. 

In April the misconduct panel found the allegations against PC Stokes proven.

It was decided that he would have been dismissed if he had not already resigned in March. 

Chief Supt Joseph McDonald, of the Met's Public Order Planning team, said: “It is quite clear that this former officer’s actions fell way below the standard rightly expected of a police officer. 

“Not only did he send sexual messages to strangers, he tried to cover his tracks and then lie about it to fellow officers. There is no place in the Met for people who think such behaviour is acceptable.”