Detective asked woman for sex

A DETECTIVE who asked a woman to come back to his house for sex and talked about a ‘sex room’ in front of train passengers has been sacked.

- KRISTY DAWSON

DC David Lavery, who worked for Northumbria Police, had been on a boozy day out in York with colleagues.

A misconduct hearing heard how during the train journey back from York to Newcastle, he was 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 the 41-year-old 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.

The woman told the hearing at Houghton-le-Spring police station that it was “so graphic and so inappropriate and so disrespectful” to speak in that way.

DC Kyle Wilson told the hearing how DC Lavery had said, as they were about to get off the train in York, that he was “thinking of making a sex room”. He said he responded by saying “f*** sake Dave, it’s not the time.”