Police officer ‘sent videos of himself performing X-rated act in uniform’

PC Christopher Leach (pictured) is accused of sending explicit videos of himself performing a sex act inside a police station to a vulnerable women

A police officer allegedly sent explicit videos of himself performing a sex act inside a police station to a vulnerable women he also visited to have sex with while on duty.

PC Christopher Leach is accused of eight breaches of standards of professional behaviour that are considered ‘so serious they amount to gross misconduct’. 

A misconduct hearing heard the officer came into contact with the woman through his job and that she was vulnerable to an abuse of trust or power.

He is accused of sending three videos of himself performing a sex act in uniform while on duty and of conducting an unlawful computer check on the woman.

It is also claimed PC Leach, a South Wales Police officer, sought to mislead investigators on two occasions while under caution.

PC Leach, who has worked for the force for five years, admitted filming himself in the toilets of Cathays police station but claimed he was not on duty.

The hearing at Cardiff County Hall heard that from June 2016, PC Leach pursued and later established a relationship with the woman, 35, who cannot be named.

Jonathan Walters, counsel for South Wales Police, told the hearing that PC Leach met the woman while following up a report and that she was a potential witness.

After speaking to the woman at her place of work, PC Leach visited her home to ask her to sign a witness statement and he gave her his personal phone number.

PC Leach told the hearing he wanted to forge a friendship because the two ‘had a lot in common’ and were both ‘professional people’.

He said that both were in other relationships at the time and bonded over the problems they were having.

He said he was in the process of separating from his ex-wife with whom he had a young son.

PC Leach is pictured leaving the hearing, which heard the officer came into contact with the woman through his job and that she was vulnerable to an abuse of trust or power

PC Leach is pictured leaving the hearing, which heard the officer came into contact with the woman through his job and that she was vulnerable to an abuse of trust or power

However, Mr Walters claims that while their relationship initially started out as a friendship, it was Leach’s intention to begin a sexual relationship.

He said that PC Leach set out to ‘weave his web’ and ‘blur the lines between a professional and personal relationship’.

He read out texts PC Leach sent to the woman in June and July of 2016, in which he described her as ‘stunning’ and ‘gorgeous’ and asked if she wanted to go for coffee.

PC Leach denied these claims, saying his comments were ‘harmless flirting’ between two friends.

In October 2016, PC Leach and the woman began a sexual relationship, with the officer accused of carrying out ‘unlawful computer checks’ on her that month.

He admitted carrying out the searches but claimed they were carried out while he was following tip-offs she had given him about drug dealing at her place of work.

The hearing was told that their relationship ended in February 2017 and PC Leach began a relationship with another police officer.

It is alleged that on June 7, June 8 and July 19, 2017, PC Leach filmed himself inside Cathays police station (pictured), when in police uniform and while on duty

It is alleged that on June 7, June 8 and July 19, 2017, PC Leach filmed himself inside Cathays police station (pictured), when in police uniform and while on duty

However, in June 2017, PC Leach and the woman started seeing each other again and began a sexual relationship while PC Leach was still in a relationship.

It is then alleged that on June 7, June 8 and July 19, 2017, PC Leach filmed himself inside Cathays police station, when in police uniform and while on duty. 

PC Leach admitted filming two videos in the toilets of the station while in his police uniform, saying it gave him a ‘thrill’, but denied filming them while he was working. 

He claims he filmed the explicit videos before his shift started, kept them on his phone and sent them to the woman if she asked.

He said that when he was unable to see her, they would communicate by sending explicit messages and videos to each other. 

The misconduct hearing continues.

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