Experienced cop sacked for 'sexual misconduct' with a student officer in a police station shower room during nightshift

An experienced police officer has been sacked after pursuing a student cop and then engaging in sexual conduct with her at a police station during a nightshift. PC Christopher Armstrong admitted it was wrong but insisted it was 'consensual'.

He was said to have driven to the junior colleague's home and 'groped' her and a month later tried to have sex with her in a shower room after giving the probationer a tour of Middleton police station.

Now he has has been sacked by Greater Manchester Police following a disciplinary hearing. He is one of 158 serving GMP officers accused of sexual misconduct in the last five years.

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PC Armstrong had been with the force 13 years while the woman was a student officer who had been with GMP for just a year when the incidents happened in August and September, 2019.

He drove to her home on August 18, 2019, even though she couldn't remember giving him her address, and said she had to push him away when he tried to kiss her and groped her bottom, according to the disciplinary panel's published ruling.

Then, on September 15 he tried to have sex with her at Middleton police station after giving her a tour of the building at 10pm, at the start of his nightshift. He was said to have taken her into a shower room where he locked the door and the pair engaged in 'consensual' kissing, according to the ruling.

The young officer, referred to only as 'Officer A' in the document, alleged 'further non-consensual and unwanted activity took place', saying the experienced cop removed her top and bra, groped her breasts, unzipped her jeans and then lay on top of her 'grinding backwards and forwards'.

The woman said she