Met Police officer cleared of Shropshire roadside rape

A erstwhile constabulary serviceman has been cleared of raping a pistillate by a roadside portion disconnected duty.

Paul Hoile, who was a peculiar constable with the Metropolitan Police astatine the time, had successful full faced 5 charges successful transportation with his enactment with her successful Shropshire successful July.

During the trial, helium told the assemblage astatine Wolverhampton Crown Court that the intersexual enactment was consensual.

The 40-year-old was recovered not blameworthy connected each counts connected Friday.

He had been accused of 3 counts of rape, 1 of misconduct, and causing a idiosyncratic to prosecute successful intersexual enactment without consent.

The prosecution alleged Mr Hoile, from Essex, had utilized his warrant paper portion drunk to "exert control" implicit the woman, "inappropriately interrogate" her, and compel her to reply questions.

The suspect said helium had produced his warrant paper astatine the petition of the pistillate and disputed claims helium had snatched her phone.

He besides denied the woman's relationship that helium had instructed her not to drive.

Mr Hoile, who had since resigned from the Met, told the assemblage helium had "stupidly" propositioned the woman, but that intersexual enactment took spot consensually and "without fuss".

He said she had performed a enactment enactment connected him by the broadside of the road, earlier further enactment took spot adjacent a obstruction successful a "dark lane".

Following his acquittal, helium was allowed to personally convey the assemblage members from the dock aft asking to speak.

Judge Jonathan Gosling besides thanked the jury, saying they had faced "incredibly hard decisions to take".

He added the suspect inactive faced a further indictment relating to a azygous allegedly indecent representation - a complaint helium described arsenic a "menial substance by comparison" and granted Mr Hoile bail.