A shamed former police officer pinned a crying woman to his bed and told her he was “turned on” by her “pretending” she did not want to have sex with him, a misconduct panel heard. Former PC Jake Cooke-Wilkinson was dismissed from Leicestershire Police without notice following the incident with a woman, known only as 'Miss A'.

He met her at a late-night bar in Leamington Spa in August last year. The hearing was told that the pair had a conversation about art, which, the panel said, was “essentially a guise to ensure that Miss A returned to his flat so that he could engage in sexual relations”.

Members of the panel heard that he then told her he had not had sex for two years and asked if she “would like to change that”. Miss A said she did not want to have sex with him, but did agree to kiss him, the report stated.

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The panel was told that he repeatedly asked her if she would go further and she repeatedly said she did not want to, it added. Mr Cooke-Wilkinson asked if she would give him a love bite, to which she agreed.

He told the hearing he enjoyed biting and being bitten, and “got gratification from giving and receiving pain because it sexually aroused him”. He then “started grabbing at Miss A’s chest and bit her between her legs, over her clothing”, a misconduct panel report said.

Mr Cooke-Wilkinson then picked her up “in a caveman-like manner”, “put her over his shoulder”, “carried her into his bedroom”, and “threw her onto his bed”. He did not check whether or not Miss A consented to this, the report explained.

He pinned her to the bed, holding her down with his hands on her right shoulder and her neck, and bit her repeatedly on her left shoulder, bruising her, it added. Miss A began to cry and told him again she did not want to have sex with him, according to the report, but he continued to bite her.

When she cried out in pain, he responded by telling her he could bite her harder, the panel stated. She said she tried to get away from Mr Cooke-Wilkinson but could not because he was on top of her, forcefully holding her down on the bed and was stronger than she was.

“Whilst on the bed the officer said, ‘I know how to be a police officer but not a person”, the report stated. It added he said: ‘It turns me on how you pretend not to want this’.”

Miss A told the hearing she thought he would stop if she fell asleep, which she eventually managed to do.

He drove her home the next day, and her work colleagues convinced her to go to the police, which she did. However, she did not want to proceed with a criminal investigation.

The misconduct hearing panel ruled Mr Cooke-Wilkinson paid “little or no regard to whether Miss A consented to any sexual contact beyond kissing because of his desire to have sex with her”. His actions were “intentional and deliberate” and were “individually and cumulatively very serious”, it added.

The panel found that Mr Cooke-Wilkinson “did not show any remorse or insight into his conduct”. He maintained throughout the hearing that what happened was “essentially consensual sexual conduct between two consenting adults”.

But the panel ruled his evidence was “self-serving” and “lacking in credibility”. The hearing ruled his actions were “deliberate”, “very serious” and “amounted to gross misconduct”, and he was dismissed from the force without notice.

'Completely unacceptable' behaviour

After the results of the hearing, Detective Superintendent Rich Ward, head of professional standards at Leicestershire Police, said: "The panel found that the behaviour and actions of former PC Cooke-Wilkinson showed little or no regard as to whether consent was being given for sexual contact.

"We take any report of this nature extremely seriously. This behaviour is completely unacceptable and will not be tolerated by us in force.

"Building and maintaining trust and confidence in our force remains a priority. We continue to challenge any unacceptable behaviour which does not meet the professional standards which are rightly expected of us."

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