A police officer raped a woman he met on an online dating site when he had sex with her despite her repeatedly telling him that she did not want to, a court has heard.
Police Constable David Longden-Thurgood is on trial at Winchester Crown Court accused of the rape of the woman, a mother aged in her 30s, at her home in October 2020.
Rebecca Fairbairn, prosecuting, told the jury that the 48-year-old defendant “would not take no for an answer”.
She described how the complainant invited the defendant, who serves with Hampshire police, to her house after they had met on the Bumble dating app and sent a series of sexualised messages to each other.
Ms Fairbairn said that they chatted before the defendant began kissing the woman and she removed her bra from under her t-shirt.
She said that the complainant was “comfortable” with this because she fancied the defendant but when they decided to go upstairs to continue watching the television on her bed, she told him: “No funny business.”
Ms Fairbairn said that when they got to the bedroom, the defendant, of Waterlooville, took his clothes off apart from his boxer shorts and got into bed and the pair began to “spoon” each other.
She said that they began to be more sexually intimate but as he removed his boxer shorts, the complainant said to him: “I do not want to have sex, we are not going to have sex.”
The defendant replied: “Don’t worry, we won’t have sex,” the prosecutor told the court.
Ms Fairbairn said that “without warning”, the defendant then penetrated the complainant.
She said: “At that stage, she thought ‘What do I do? I have told him and he hasn’t listened’.
The prosecutor said that after the defendant had left her house, the complainant sent him a message saying: “It’s just I kept saying ‘No, we are not having sex’.”
She said the defendant replied: “Sorry babe, to spoon after all that and not have sex.”
Ms Fairbairn added: “The defendant didn’t think that (the complainant) had a right to agree to some sexual activity and not everything.”
The prosecutor said that the following day, the complainant told a friend that she had been with someone “who didn’t take no for an answer”.
The friend had asked her if she was contacting the police, to which she replied: “He is the police.”
Ms Fairbairn also read out messages from before the pair met including one the defendant sent saying: “I will shield you, I will protect you.”
Longden-Thurgood, who has been a police officer for 19 years, denies the charge and the trial continues.
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