Cop propositioned woman

DETECTIVE CONSTABLE FACES CHARGES OF MISCONDUCT

- By KRISTY DAWSON

A DETECTIVE was kicked in the shin when he allegedly asked a woman if she would go back to his house for sex.

DC David Lavery, of Northumbria Police, is said to have propositioned the woman while on a Metro train.

A misconduct hearing heard how he had been on a boozy day out in York with colleagues that day. During the train journey back from York to Newcastle, DC Lavery was allegedly talking about making a ‘sex room’ and showing pictures of a ‘sex chair’.

When they reached Newcastle Central Station, he got the same Metro home as the woman, who cannot be identified for legal reasons. She told the hearing how he said to her: “So are you coming back to mine then for some sexual intercourse?”

The woman, who is in a relationship, said she responded by kicking him in the shin. She told the hearing at Houghton-le-Spring police station: “It was so graphic and so inappropriate and so disrespectful to speak in that way when I already told him it wasn’t OK. I should not have been put in that position. I should not have to explain that it's not appropriate. It’s not appropriate language or behaviour.”