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Sex assault Pc spared jail term | |
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A Metropolitan Police instructor convicted of sexually assaulting a trainee has been spared a prison sentence. | |
Pc Simon McKenzie, 41, groped the woman, 23, after a party at the force's training college in Hendon, north-west London, last year. | |
McKenzie, from Leighton Buzzard, Beds, denied any wrongdoing and suggested his accuser may have "spiked" his drink. | McKenzie, from Leighton Buzzard, Beds, denied any wrongdoing and suggested his accuser may have "spiked" his drink. |
Judge Ronald Moss imposed a two-year supervision order. | |
'Catastrophic' effect | |
McKenzie was also told he would have to complete a sex offender's programme and register as a sex offender for five years. | |
The court was told McKenzie had been helping the trainee celebrate her forthcoming passing out ceremony, but assaulted her after spending hours downing beer and neat whisky. | |
The trainee, now a constable, told Harrow Crown Court: "I was very upset, I was very angry, I was quite shocked." | |
McKenzie, who has now resigned from the force, also insisted that although he had no recollection of that part of the evening, he was a "gentleman who would never pay unwanted attention to a lady". | McKenzie, who has now resigned from the force, also insisted that although he had no recollection of that part of the evening, he was a "gentleman who would never pay unwanted attention to a lady". |
Judge Moss told him: "Your behaviour was inappropriate and a breach of trust aggravated by the fact that for the most part it took place in a lift with nobody else but you and the complainant." | |
Richard Merz, defending, said the loss of his client's good character and job would have a "catastrophic" effect on him. |
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