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.
The Sun reported that Arter was additionally held over allegations of voyeurism, sending malicious communications and blackmail.
Rebekah met Arter in 2007 when she reported a complaint of domestic violence to police and Arter was the investigator, a detective sergeant working on a community safety unit.
They began dating, which was part of his pattern of inappropriate relationships with vulnerable victims.
Six months after meeting Rebekah, he moved into the home she shared with her young son Elliot in Welling, South London, and they married in Las Vegas in 2016.
But when they returned from their honeymoon, Met anti-corruption officers were waiting and he was suspended from duty on suspicion of having sex with vulnerable rape victims.
Arter went down a rabbit hole of cocaine and sex, staying out all night, sleeping during the day and having nose bleeds from drug abuse, friends told The Sun.
And he reportedly forced his wife to do so with him, ‘under his complete control’.
Friends said he made her wear revealing clothing and high heeled stilettos.
‘She was not the woman she was when she met Warren.’
In 2018 he was arrested again on suspicion of supplying drugs and corrupt use of police powers and 3,000 messages were found on his phone, many relating to swinging.
By the time he was sacked by the force, the married couple had racked up debts, Rebekah had remortgaged her home and sold another property she owned.
But he was able to claim his pension as he had escaped criminal proceedings, which the couple used flew to Barbados in June.
Nine days later Arter found Rebekah dead with blood all over the sheets and carpet at the luxury O2 Beach Club and Spa hotel.
She died from a massive haemorrhage of the lungs caused by a viral infection and cocaine was found in her system.
One source told The Sun: ‘It apparently seemed like a murder scene with blood everywhere.’ An inquest into her death will take place at a later date in London.
They said police were told Arter sent a video to a friend showing Rebekah having sex with a man while she seemed to be unconscious.
Arter spent more than £3,000 on Rebekah’s credit card in Barbados in the days after her death.
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.
Arter spent two years buying cocaine and MDMA and sent out text messages offering to supply drugs to others while he was working in the Met’s Sapphire squad.
Police found a photograph of the officer sitting on his sofa in front of a mirror with lines of white powder and a card on it resting on a coffee table in his living room.
Another image showed plastic bags containing white powder resting on a set of digital scales.
He was barred from policing after his sordid role in cocaine-fuelled parties where he turned a blind eye to drug taking and suspected exploitation was revealed in a police misconduct hearing.
When police arrested the father as he flew home from Jamaica in December 2016, officers found drugs paraphernalia more commonly associated with a drug dealer at his property, including metal straws and mini scales found to bear traces of cocaine along with a grip-seal bag that had traces of MDMA.
The officer was taken into custody where he tested positive for cocaine.
He was interviewed under caution on suspicion of offering to supply controlled drugs to others and the corrupt or improper use of police powers for failing to act when he became aware of other people possessing and consuming drugs.
A three-day misconduct hearing was told that the disgraced officer had bought cocaine and MDMA on multiple occasions between 2016 and 2018 and regularly attended parties where cocaine and crack were openly consumed, which he turned a blind eye to.
Arter also failed to take action when he was aware a man was providing drugs to a woman in exchange for sex.
The Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) discovered text message exchanges in which he arranged to buy drugs, discussed taking them, and offered to supply cocaine to two women on two occasions.
His phone and iPad were also found to bear traces of cocaine.
He was found to have breached the police standards of professional behaviour for discreditable conduct, authority, respect and courtesy, duties and responsibilities, honesty and integrity.
Despite the extraordinary length of time the case has taken, Arter was due to face a secondary disciplinary hearing over allegations he had abused his position for a sexual purpose.