Sergeant Lee Cocking is on trial for misconduct in public office
A married police officer who allegedly had sex with a woman in a car told her not to tell anyone because he would lose his job, a court has heard.
Sergeant Lee Cocking is on trial for misconduct in public office at Gloucester Crown Court, following the alleged events of a night in December 2017.
Jurors have heard that a woman, aged 30 at the time, had been on a night out at the Skinny Dippers bar in Weston-Super-Mare and got so drunk that she was told to leave.
She was spoken to by a female police officer before Sgt Cocking - an acting inspector that night - turned up at 3.10am in an unmarked silver Vauxhall Astra police car, the court heard.
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A police officer accused of having sex with a woman in his car while on duty claims she forced him into it.
Avon and Somerset police officer, Sgt Lee Cocking, offered the woman a lift home after she was asked to leave a nightclub due to drunken behaviour on Christmas Eve 2017.
Gloucester Crown Court heard the woman told Sgt Cocking, of Labourham Way, in Cheddar, to man up and have sex.
He denies a charge of misconduct in public office.
The woman, who was 30 at the time, had been on a night out when she was told to leave the Skinny Dippers club in Weston-super-Mare.
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Sergeant claims woman forced him to have sex in his police car
Lee Cocking is on trial accused of misconduct
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Sergeant Lee Cocking
A police sergeant charged with misconduct for having an intimate encounter with a woman in his police car told a jury she demanded he have sex with her.
It is claimed Lee Cocking was on duty as an acting police inspector when he picked the woman up near the Grand Pier in Weston-super-Mare and had a sexual encounter with her.
Cocking said he was giving her a lift home when she initiated sex.
The 39-year-old married dad-of two, of Labourham Way in Cheddar, Somerset, denies misconduct in a judicial or public office while on duty on Christmas Eve, 2017.