A police officer allegedly raped a businesswoman a day after assembly her on a courting app and would ‘not take no for a solution,’ a court docket has heard.
David Longden-Thurgood, 48, is claimed to have informed her ‘it feels too good I can’t cease now’ when requested to cease.
A court docket heard divorced Longden-Thurgood met the lady, a mom in her 30s, on the Bumble courting app.
The Hampshire-based officer of 19 years despatched her selfies, spoke about probably having intercourse in his uniform, and informed the lady ‘I’m a little bit of a insurgent off obligation’.
‘I’ll defend you for all times, you can be my child lady, I’ll take care of you’, he stated in a single.
Prosecutor Rebecca Fairbairn informed the court docket that after a day of the pair exchanging sexualised messages and sending bare selfies, the lady invited him to her residence.
Ms Fairbairn stated she needed to talk to get to know him however had repeatedly stated ‘I don’t need intercourse’.
The day after the alleged assault, the lady messaged him: ‘I simply stored saying “no we aren't having intercourse”. I didn’t thoughts a spoon and a little bit of play however I believe you supposed on coming right here and having intercourse, it obtained to the purpose the place I could as effectively cease saying no.’
Longden-Thurgood replied: ‘Sorry babe, I believed with all of the intercourse speak that was each what we needed. It’s very troublesome to just accept the invite into your home to spoon in any case that speak and never have intercourse.’
Opening the trial at Winchester Crown Courtroom, Ms Fairbairn stated father of three Longden-Thurgood matched with the lady on Bumble in October 2020 they usually met at her Hampshire residence the next night.
She informed the jury: ‘Even when she stated no, he was not ready to take no for a solution.”
‘Due to the very fact they'd been messaging, and partially as a result of he was a police officer, she felt a level of belief and so it was organized that the next evening after she put the kids to mattress he would come spherical.’
The pair had engaged ‘in some sexual exercise’ and Ms Fairbairn stated the alleged sufferer freely accepted to investigators that at this stage she was consenting.
However, when she observed Longden-Thurgood taking his boxers off, she informed him ‘I don’t need to have intercourse’.
He replied ‘don’t fear we gained’t have intercourse’.
Jurors had been informed Longden-Thurgood then, ‘with out warning’, raped the lady as she remained silent.
When she informed him once more she didn’t need intercourse, Longden-Thurgood informed her: ‘Properly it feels too good I can’t cease now.’
The lady stated it ‘harm’, that he was ‘aggressive’ and he or she felt ‘numb’, the court docket heard.
She stated she couldn’t make eye-contact with him and had been fearful about waking her youngsters.
The next day, in messages between the pair, Longden-Thurgood stated the lady appeared ‘depressing’, was ‘blowing it out of proportion’, and ‘you make me really feel like shit’.
The identical day, the lady was emotional as she picked her youngsters up after faculty. Ms Fairbairn stated her buddy of 5 years observed one thing was improper.
Days later, when the lady contacted the police, she was hesitant and requested for 2 days to contemplate whether or not she needed to make a proper report.
Longden-Thurgood, from Waterlooville, Hampshire, denies one depend of rape.
His rank was not given but it surely was heard he carries out danger assessments in a power management room.
The trial continues.
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