Absolutely agree the Met are stretched/underfunded. Was just questioning what the other poster meant when saying covered up. I don't believe it was, however was it missed/not taken as seriously?Said it before but the Met is so large and resources are stretched that it's possible they hadn't got round to the allegation yet or hadn't recognised the dude as someone they could know because they didn't know him as he wasn't in their circles.
I do think we'd like to believe that someone is covering something up, because the idea that our police forces (including the Met) are so stretched that crimes like this may be missed is a bit of a sad one.
I was also of the opinion that it was a missed thing, but having read policing experience on Reddit and their thoughts it honestly seems like a normal thing, and of course it would be seeing as they're underfunded. I don't think the Met being the Met really matters here because certain areas of it would still be hit hard, I'd like to think that the gov/funding side of things doesn't want to underfund stuff such as MP protection or Royal protection but 'petty' crimes are sort of whatever.