The killings of 16-year-old Kennie Carter, 17-year-old Alan Szelugowski, and 20-year-old Dylan Keelan, over the last three consecutive weekends has shocked the Greater Manchester community.
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A serving Greater Manchester Police officer has disputed claims that he was having a secret sexual relationship with an alleged rape victim.
PC Simon Rose is on trial at Liverpool Crown Court where he denies misconduct in a public office and also attempting to pervert the course of justice.
A jury has heard that he met the vulnerable single mum-of-three after calling round as a specially trained officer to deal with her report of rape by two strangers who had taken her off in a car.
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They formed a friendship which it is claimed became a sexual relationship and which he kept “under the radar” and he repeatedly reminded her to delete their text conversations.
Seven years later by coincidence a search warrant was issued for her home and he allegedly tried to dissuade his colleagues from searching it.
Vanessa Thomson, prosecuting, has told how after the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) became involved and the woman was interviewed by them in January 2020.
The woman claimed that their relationship became sexual a few months after their first meeting and she said she had sex with him on three or four occasions.
She also claimed that prior to that they had had exchanged sexual messages, spoken about their sexual fantasies and she sent him explicit photographs of herself.
Miss Thomson told the jury that during her interview with the IOPC the woman said that she had “strong feelings for PC Rose a number of years ago and that he had discussed them being together even though he had a partner.”
When she embarked on a new relationship her relationship with Mr Rose turned to close friendship.
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