PC who sexually assaulted six-year-old girl jailed

A "depraved" PC who sexually assaulted a six-year-old miss portion connected work and superimposed his look connected to kid maltreatment images has been jailed.

Former Greater Manchester Police (GMP) serviceman Dean Dempster, 35, pleaded blameworthy to sexually assaulting the kid erstwhile responding to a disturbance successful Oldham successful December 2023 and six counts of making kid maltreatment images.

Thousands of indecent images of children were discovered erstwhile his devices were seized, with much than 100 graded arsenic class A – the astir serious.

He was jailed astatine Liverpool Crown Court for 9 years and ordered to motion the enactment offenders' registry for life.

Dempster, of Langford Road, Manchester, who joined the unit successful 2021, was 1 of 3 officers responding to a home incidental involving an big and children connected 29 December 2023.

It was portion taking an relationship from a six-year-old girl, distant from colleagues, helium sexually abused her, GMP said.

He was arrested the adjacent time and investigated by GMP's nonrecreational standards directorate for immoderate further offending, nether the absorption of the Independent Office for Police Conduct.

A hunt of Dempster’s location revealed further superior offending see making of indecent images of children, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said.

Four pairs of folded children’s underwear, shredded underwear successful a bag, a disc of images, and 2 hard drives were besides seized on with his devices.

Dempster’s mobile telephone and iPad were recovered to incorporate 104 indecent images of children graded arsenic class A, 440 class B images and 2,472 class C images.

The CPS said they had been downloaded from December 2021 until 29 December 2023.

A ample fig of the pseudo images had been superimposed to picture Dempster with children, it added.

Images of children, taken from his body-worn video camera from the December 2023 incidental and different incidental successful 2022 were besides recovered connected his mobile phone.

The victims of some families person been made alert and kept updated, the unit said.

Dempster was sacked astatine an accelerated misconduct hearing successful May.

Deputy Chief Constable Terry Woods said: "I americium aggravated and appalled astatine this abhorrent maltreatment of work and trust.

"We commend the bravery of this young unfortunate for coming forward.

"We apologise to her household and cognize thing volition ever undo the harm Dempster has caused to his victims."

He said Dempster, who besides admitted 2 counts of misconduct successful nationalist office, "represents the precise worst of society".

"He is not a constabulary officer; helium is simply a kid enactment offender, a criminal, and helium has nary close to beryllium adjacent constabulary azygous oregon service the public," helium said.

"Dempster is simply a depraved objection who we person wasted nary clip successful dismissing and disowning."

At Dempster's disciplinary hearing, Chief Constable Stephen Watson, said: "It is this astir egregious breach of spot of an guiltless young kid that is the astir upsetting facet of this case.

"I see this lawsuit to beryllium among the astir distressing ever presented to me, specified is the despicable betrayal of each that is inherent successful being a decent constabulary officer."