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05.07.2023 - 17:15 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
A barrister has claimed a domestic violence victim who began a relationship with a police officer who met her on duty was not vulnerable. Ben Summers is representing PC Dean Birkhead, a serving GMP officer at a disciplinary hearing.
Mr Summers said female A, as she is referred to at the hearing, was "a powerful woman who knew her own mind". He added she was capable of making her own decsions and it was "patronising" and "deeply offensive" to assume that because she was a victim of her former husband's behaviour she was "incapable of recognising a predatory male."
He added that since she and PC Birkhead had begun the relationship they had gone on to make a life together. He dismissed the allegation that PC Birkhead had abused his position for sexual purposes.
"Female A was a capable and consenting adult...she is a powerful woman who knows her own mind. It couldn't be any further, is our position, from him abusing his authority for sexual purposes. Real people are more complicated than simple-minded labelling. Of course she would be identified for the purposes of safeguarding as being vulnerable. The fact that she ticks the box literally and figuratively of being vulnerable from a safeguarding point of view should not be equated with she's vulnerable at the hands of PC Birkhead."
Female A, who divorced her husband in 2019, told the hearing herself that she did believe she was vulnerable.
PC Birkhead has admitted he "buried his head in the sand" and failed to report the relationship he had formed with female A. PC Dean Birkhead told the misconduct hearing he was "scared" of the potential consequences.
The hearing was told that his contact with female A, developed rapidly after he took two statements from her alleging
Bethenny Frankel has some advice for Raquel Leviss.
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