By Ashley Young-
A Metropolitan Police officer sexually assaulted a woman in her home after being called to deal with a domestic incident, a court has heard.
As cases of police misconduct pour out before the courts, the details of the shenanigans of unprofessional cops continue to be laid bare. This time a cop attending a domestic violent call decides to exploit the situation, with no fear that he himself could be reported for it.
Pc Fabian Aguilar-Delgado, 40, was on duty and in full uniform when he allegedly kissed the woman before sucking her breast on the afternoon of May 24 2020.
Southwark Crown Court heard the alleged assault took place after the officer offered to search her house for her abusive ex-partner while his colleague was in the car outside.
Aguilar-Delgado, who was new to the job and had not been issued with a body worn camera, denies a single charge of sexual assault.
In a recorded police interview played on Tuesday the woman, who cannot be identified, said she was “tipsy”, after drinking three quarters of a bottle of wine when Aguilar-Delgado “groped” her at the top of the stairs.
He allegedly put his hand on her breasts. As she was on the last step near the bathroom door, he started to kiss her. She described his tongue being in her mouth and she pushed him back and he put his hand down her top pulled her breast out and sucked on it.”
He allegedly told her “look I’ve got a hard on” and pointed to the front of his trousers before he said that he had to go and returned to the police car. Both officers then stayed outside in the police car until the locksmith arrived.
“He’s in front of me and he started to really French kiss me. I kind of pushed back,” she said.
“He put his hands down my top, pulled out my boobs and started sucking on my boobs.
“I sat down on the bed because I was more or less pushed down there, and he said: ‘Look, I’ve got a hard-on’, and pointed to the front of his trousers.”
She heard something bleep before the officer said: “I’ve got to go.”
The woman wrote down her phone number and took it out to the car to give to Aguilar-Delgado, from Crawley, West Sussex, because she thought he might want to see her – but his colleague returned it.
“I was scared to say anything, then I tried to back out of it because I thought: ‘This is the police you are dealing with,’” she said.
“But then I thought: ‘If he’s done that to me, has he done it to anyone else?’”
The complainant, who jurors were told is alcohol-dependent, said she later called police to report being “touched up” by an officer because she felt she had been “violated”.
“I have had police in my house lots of times and I have never gone through that, never,” she said.
“I was afraid to go back to the house.
“I thought he might come and kill me or all the officers might gang up on me… and now I won’t even ring the police. I’m too scared.”
PC Aguilar-Delgado denied the allegation, stating that he had only been alone with the woman for a short period of time, and that he had been halfway up the stairs while she was on the landing. He stated that he had not sexually assaulted her and that there had been no physical context, and the DNA might have come from a chewing gum or from shaking her hand.
The officer cannot be visually identified because the Met protects the identity of their officers when charged, unless they are in fact jailed
The case continues.