GMP cop was 'friends with benefits' to vulnerable woman and would come round for 'fun time in bed', court hears

A young woman, who claims a Greater Manchester Police (GMP) constable called at her home while on duty for sex sessions, told a court today that they were “friends with benefits.”

She said that Shamraze Arshad, described by the prosecution as “arrogant”, would come round for 15 - 20 minutes for “a fun time in bed.” He would sometimes come round in his uniform and then after the sex he would say “okay, bye.”

The 31-year-old officer denies having a sexual relationship with her. But she told the jurors “maybe he would say anything to defend himself. The situation we had was very simple, it was friends with benefits.”

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She said claims that she had threatened to kill herself if he stopped contact were untrue. When Arshad’s barrister Peter Wright, KC, suggested that she had not wanted the relationship to end “and sadly made up a story,” she replied, “No.”

Arshad had met the vulnerable woman after police were called to her Fallowfield home in October 2020 when she was highly distressed, drunk and suicidal.

He submitted a care plan for her after she was taken to hospital and having finished his shift “that should have been the end of the matter”, said Jamie Baxter, prosecuting. But 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 8.02 am on October 28, 2020 - just hours after she had been taken to hospital.

“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