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A former police constable has been jailed for nine years for raping a 14-year-old girl. | |
In 2002, Christopher Davies, now 32, had resigned from North Wales Police after being cleared of sending indecent text messages to another teenager. | |
A Caernarfon Crown Court trial heard how Davies got the 14-year-old girl drunk before raping her at his home near Mold in Flintshire last April. | |
The judge said Davies, who had become a bodyguard, had not shown remorse. | |
During the four-day trial, Judge John Rogers QC also said Davies - a bodyguard and combat instructor from Northop Hall - had tried to pull the wool of over the eyes of the jury. | |
The court heard how he took his victim home after taking her for a meal. | |
"You plied her with so much drink that she fell into sleep or semi-consciousness. Then you gratified your sexual appetite by having sexual intercourse with her," the judge said. | |
Nightmare | |
"Only a substantial period of imprisonment is appropriate," said the judge, who also imposed a lifetime sex offenders' order. | |
After the trial, the girl's mother said her daughter was still living a nightmare but was receiving counselling. | |
Davies had resigned from North Wales Police in 2002, after being cleared by Wrexham magistrates of sending indecent text messages to a 15-year-old girl whom he had met while investigating an alleged assault on her. | |
He resigned from the police so escaping a disciplinary inquiry. | |
In court in 2002, he had accepted he had acted naively but had denied that any of the text messages were of an improper nature. | |
In his rape trial, the court heard he knew his victim was 14, although he said she had claimed to be two years older. |