Allegations a serving officer raped two of his female colleagues are being investigated by the Metropolitan Police. The officer faces a misconduct hearing more than three years after the allegations were reported. He was not charged and has not been suspended. The women were awarded compensation but one of them says "we were just cast aside and not cared for". 

"Holly" was a junior police officer when she started a relationship with an older, more senior colleague. She says after a few months he became controlling and violent. And "Kate" says over three years she was also raped and assaulted.

We have changed the women's names to protect their anonymity.

Kate was put in touch with Holly and they contacted police. Solicitor Siobhan Crawford, who works on abuse cases, says: "The investigation and the steps taken thereafter by the Met have been completely inadequate, woeful and let these women down."

The Met says it takes "all allegations of domestic abuse extremely seriously" and is investigating whether details of the women's allegations were leaked to the accused officer.

New police bodycam footage of George Floyd pleading with officers during his arrest, saying: "I'm not a bad guy” has been shown during the trial of Derek Chauvin, who is accused of killing him.

The video shows ex-police officer Mr Chauvin with his knee on Mr Floyd's neck for more than nine minutes, and Mr Floyd begging not to be harmed. Mr Chauvin, 45, denies charges of murder and manslaughter. Defence lawyers have indicated they will argue that 46-year-old Mr Floyd died of an overdose and poor health, and the force used was reasonable.

Mr Floyd’s death last year sparked global protests over policing and racism.

“Blacklash” over the government-commissioned review into race features on many of this morning’s front pages. The Times says the report is “culturally deaf” after it said there was a “new story” to slavery, which sparked “anger”. The Guardian condemns the review, which included findings such as there being no evidence of institutional racism in the UK, as “divisive” and the I paper headlines with “Downing Street hit by backlash over landmark report”.

Pictures of the Queen on her first public appearance of the year appear in many of the papers with the Sun reporting the monarch has received her “second jab”. It also reports on the take up of the second jab, which it says is at 99%. 

We usually set sat navs to find the quickest route to get to places but soon drivers could have a new option. Google Maps will start calculating the most eco-friendly routes, by factoring in which journey will generate the lowest carbon footprint using mainly traffic data and road inclines.

From preserving the planet, to the preservation of chocolate. A 121-year-old chocolate bar has been discovered in the attic of a National Trust property. It was given to British troops to boost morale during the Boer Wars in South Africa and was part of a batch commissioned by Queen Victoria in 1900.

And finally from one queen to another, here’s Queen Elizabeth II making her first public appearance of the year outside Windsor Castle yesterday, to mark the centenary of the Royal Australian Air Force.

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