Ex-police officer admits sexual activity with teen

SACKED CLEVELAND COP TELLS COURT: 'I DON'T REMEMBER DOING IT, BUT GUILTY'

- By KATIE DICKINSON (PA) and POPPY KENNEDY

A SACKED ex-police officer has admitted to engaging in sexual activity with an underage teenage girl but said the relationship had “coercive and threatening elements,” a court heard.

Former PC Nathan Henderson, now dismissed by Cleveland Police, pleaded guilty to 11 counts of sexual activity with a child.

After pleading guilty to two of the charges, Henderson, who appeared at Durham Crown Court via video link from prison, said: “Could I just ask... the circumstances, are they explained?”

Sam Faulks, defending, said a basis of plea may be submitted, telling Judge Joanne Kidd: “The position is that the defendant accepts that the defence of duress that might have come through in (an) interview is not available to him in law.