Sergeant David Stansbury abused his place of belief as a serving police officer to “exploit a weak younger girl for his personal sexual gratification”, the prosecution instructed Bristol Crown Court docket.
The prosecution stated Stansbury had been referred to as out to the scene and took the lady’s assertion after a suspect had tried to smash her door in.
She had referred to as 999 and Stansbury was among the many officers who responded.
Regardless of having no ongoing function in investigating the incident, Stansbury returned to the lady’s dwelling and raped her throughout comparable assaults on totally different days, the jury was instructed.
Stansbury, 43, of Ilminster, Somerset, has pleaded not responsible to a few counts of rape between October 23 and November 30 2009. He was an officer with Devon and Cornwall Police between 2009 and 2011.
The alleged rape sufferer thinks the primary assault was inside days of her unique 999 name when she was drunk and had medicine in her dwelling.
She thought he was checking to see if she was all proper. Stansbury was in uniform, positioned his police radio on the mantlepiece and began to undress.
In her police interview, which was performed in courtroom, the lady instructed officers that she requested Stansbury what he was doing as he began to undress however was instructed “you don’t have any say in that” and raped her.
The lady instructed investigating officers that she had instructed Stansbury “I don’t wish to do this” throughout one of many alleged rapes.
He noticed that she had medicine in the home, instructed her that she shouldn’t be doing that and instructed her “I’m the regulation” earlier than he raped her, she claimed.
The lady described herself as feeling “simply frozen” afterwards and instructed officers in her police interview: “He received himself dressed. I bear in mind he regarded proper within the mirror. He was ensuring he was all proper. He didn’t give a shit about me.
“Then he stated ‘Oh, I’ll see you once more’ and he left, slammed the door and was gone.”
The lady instructed the officers she felt “helpless” and “ashamed” as a result of her life-style of sophistication A medicine and alcohol meant that nobody would consider her claims of rape in opposition to an officer.
“A policeman has are available to my home. It’s utterly unlawful and who am I going to inform?
“I felt horrible and sick and ashamed of myself.
“I felt that if I had not been doing cocaine, I may have instructed any person. I felt helpless. I had no defence in that I used to be doing class A medicine with my youngsters within the property. Who’s going to assist me?
The allegations in opposition to Stansbury solely got here to gentle when the lady was at the back of a police van after being arrested at a disturbance in 2020, and instructed the officers she had been assaulted.
In an outcry that was caught on bodyworn cameras, she instructed these arresting officers that Stansbury was supposed to assist me however he “got here again and again and again” and raped her.
The officers stated her claims can be taken severely and girl didn’t go to the police earlier as a result of she was afraid that as a drug and alcohol person that her household can be taken away.
In her interview concerning the alleged rape, she instructed officers that she had not forgotten the incident and had instructed solely a few individuals about it.
Being that near a police uniform, full with its sound and textures, made her panic.
She added: “I don’t suppose I did something to deserve what was occurring to me. I had performed nothing flawed. The worry – it introduced it again – the sounds, the scent and all the pieces, it made me wish to scream.”
Prosecutor Virginia Cornwall instructed the jury the arrest has “rewakened” the trauma of the alleged rape.
In opening the case, Ms Cornwall stated: “This defendant, a serving police officer made a selection to use a weak younger girl for his personal sexual gratification.
“He abused, the Crown says, his place of belief as a police officer having attended the house of the lady in response to a 999 name.
“He made a option to train over her the ability and management that his function as a uniformed officer gave him, in impact. He returned to her dwelling and raped her after he went to assist her as a serving officer in response to that decision.”
The lady was “terrified”, “upset and weak” when she first referred to as the police for assist, in line with Ms Cornwall who stated Stansbury’s actions afterwards confirmed “confidence and vanity of returning on subsequent events, assured that she wouldn’t report it.”
She added: “He by no means thought for one second his behaviour would see the sunshine of day.”
He now serves with Hertfordshire Police however is at present suspended from responsibility.
The listening to was adjourned to Wednesday at 10am.
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