'Arrogant cop' who had sex sessions while on duty with vulnerable young woman GUILTY

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A former police constable has been found guilty of having sex sessions with a vulnerable woman whilst on duty. Ex-Greater Manchester Police officer Shamraze Arshad, 38, is now facing a "substantial" jail term after being convicted of misconduct in public office.

A four-day trial at Liverpool Crown Court, which concluded today (Thursday), heard that Arshad, a father-of-two, met the woman after he and a colleague were called out to her student accommodation in south Manchester when she was suicidal in the autumn of 2020.

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. READ MORE: 'Every day she woke up she wondered what was going to happen' But later that morning while off duty, "arrogant" Arshad used his police mobile to find her personal details and began calling her 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 serving police officer, began an intimate and ultimately sexual relationship with this vulnerable young woman whom he met in crisis" the court was told. “Far detached from the knight in shining armour she initially thought he was, we suggest that she was selected by him because of those very vulnerabilities which caused him to first meet her and that he abused his position as a serving police officer, gaining her trust, in order to sleep with her.

His concern was not her wellbeing, but rather his own sexual desires,” Jamie Baxter, prosecuting said. Join our FREE Manchester Crime and Court WhatsApp group