Ex GMP cop jailed for 'stuff of nightmares' attack on teenager as she walked home alone

A former Greater Manchester Police officer crept up behind a teenage girl as she walked home alone in an attack a judge branded 'the stuff of nightmares'.

Disgraced cop, 39-year-old White, had drank four bottles of wine before getting in his car for a drive on June 25 this year. He said he had not gone out to prowl for a lone female but when he spotted the teenager in a remote location in Darwen, he stopped the car and assaulted her.

Eve Salter, prosecuting, told Crown Court that the girl heard footsteps running up behind her before White put his hands over her eyes and said: "I don't want to hurt you".

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He dragged her to the ground, causing grazes and bruises to her arm, torso and hip, before removing one of his hands from her eyes and putting it on her leg, LancsLive reports.

The brave teenager took out her mobile phone and called her mum on Facetime. She tried to strike her attacker with the phone as the call connected, but White tried to knock it out of her hand.

She was able to take a photo of her attacker, who was wearing a distinctive T-shirt, before White ran away into the darkness, spooked by the girl's call for help. The youngster was collected by her step dad and reported the attack to the police.

She said: "I don't know how to feel about the attack. I am just glad to be alive as I feared the worst was about to happen."

The court heard White was dismissed from his role with Greater Manchester Police, serving the Bolton area, in 2015, after he was convicted of four offences relating to the sexual harassment of female colleagues.

Tom Worsfold, defending, said his client recognised the court would have little sympathy for him