“I had a duty of care to make sure she was okay,” he said
A former police constable accused of sex sessions while on duty with a vulnerable young woman has denied the allegations. Shamraze Arshad, who was a police constable with Greater Manchester Police until being sacked last year, told a jury today that he had never had sex with the 21-year-old.
Quizzed by his KC, Peter Wright about whether he had conducted “an intimate sexual relationship” with the woman, Arshad replied, “No, I did not.” The court has heard that he initially met her when he and another officer where called to her home in the early hours of October 28, 2020 because she was highly distressed and suicidal.
“In the days that followed he began asking her to go on a date and over the weeks and months thereafter his contact with her continued and what resulted is that the defendant, a serving police officer, began an intimate and ultimately sexual relationship with this vulnerable young woman whom he met in crisis.Mr Baxter said that the evidence “was consistent with an arrogant man – from the moment he met her in October 2020 to July 2021 he was interested in only one person, himself”.
Mr Baxter pointed out that the defendant had given her his mobile number and told her to ring if she needed his support but it was Arshad who was getting in touch with her.
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