'Arrogant' GMP cop had sex sessions with woman he was called to help when she was suicidal, jury told

An 'arrogant' police constable had sex sessions while on duty with a vulnerable young woman he met after being called out to her home when she was suicidal, a jury was told.

Shamraze Arshad, 38, who denies a charge he faces, submitted a care plan for the woman after she was taken to hospital and having finished his shift, 'that should have been the end of the matter', a court heard on Monday. But Jamie Baxter, prosecuting, said that later that morning while off duty, he used his police mobile to access the secure police system and the log about the incident.

Having found her personal details he began calling her at 8.02am on October 28, 2020 - just hours after she had been taken to hospital, jurors were told.

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"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," said Mr Baxter.

“Far detached from the knight in shining armour she initially thought he was, we suggest that she was selected by him because of those very vulnerabilities which caused him to first meet her and that he abused his position as a serving police officer, gaining her trust, in order to sleep with her. His concern was not her wellbeing, but rather his own sexual desires.”

By the following April or May she ended their casual relationship, which had been known only to them, the court was told. However police officers investigating Arshad recovered messages between them shedding light on their true relationship, added Mr