Disgraced Met detective inspector, 54, ‘drugged his wife so men at swinging parties could rape her’ – before her body was found in a blood-drenched hotel room in Barbados. Rapist Met Officer Arter was found Dead, in his Jail Cell. Former Detective Inspector Warren Arter was found unresponsive in his cell at HMP Wandsworth less than a week after being charged with misconduct.

The wife of a disgraced Met detective was found dead in a blood-drenched hotel room two weeks before he took his own life in prison, it has emerged.

Warren Arter, 54, married Rebekah, 47, in Las Vegas in 2016 after the couple met when he was the lead investigator on her domestic violence case. 

However he was arrested soon after when the police received an anonymous tip off that he was having inappropriate relationships with victims. He was accused of making sexual advances towards at least four victims between 2006 and 2012 when he was leading a rape investigation team.

Shortly after the shamed officer was suspended for abusing his position, but remained on full pay until finally being sacked last year after a misconduct tribunal, which heard evidence of him taking drugs and offering to supply them at swingers parties.

During this time, Rebekah’s friends described their relationship as ‘toxic’ and ‘deeply controlling’, with the pair both addicted to crack cocaine. 

It was also claimed that he forced ­Rebekah to have sex with other men at parties and at one point she was raped while unconscious after being drugged by the ex-Met cop.

These allegations of coercive control were being investigated by police when Rebekah was found dead in a blood-drenched hotel room while on holiday in Barbados earlier this year. 

On his return to Heathrow, Arter was arrested on allegations serious offences, including rape, not related to Rebekah. Two weeks later Arter was discovered dead in his jail cell. He reportedly gave differing accounts of how he found her body, saying they had been sunbathing and returned to the room, then he woke two hours later to find her dead.

He  also said they went for dinner and he had slept for 18 hours before finding her dead.

By the time ­Rebekah’s body was repatriated to the UK Arter had died in prison.

It is estimated he earned around £400,000 since he was suspended by Scotland Yard in 2016 over allegations that he abused his position ‘for a sexual purpose’.

He was accused of pestering victims of sexual offences between 2006 and 2013 when he was a detective sergeant leading a rape investigation team which won an award in 2009 for having the best detection rate in the Metropolitan Police.

The officer offered to supply Class A drugs to several women and photographed himself in front of a line of cocaine.