‘Cop assaulted woman when called to domestic incident’
A woman told a court she was ‘very scared’ to report a Met Police officer who sexually assaulted her because of the murder of George Floyd in the US, a court heard.
PC Fabian Aguilar-Delgado, 40, allegedly kissed the woman and sucked her breast after being called to her home in Croydon to deal with an incident of domestic violence on 24 May 2020.
The next day George Floyd, 46, was killed by an American police officer who knelt on his neck in Minneapolis the sparking the Black Lives Matter protests.
Aguilar-Delgado denies touching the woman sexually.
Prosecutor Abigail Husbands said the woman was alcohol dependent and there had been a history of violence with her ex-partner.
Giving evidence behind a screen at Southwark Crown Court the woman said Aguilar-Delgado followed her upstairs, put his hands down the top and forced her into the bedroom with his tongue in her mouth.
She said two police officers had attended the property and helped her to contact a locksmith as her ex had taken her keys.
The woman told the court that after the officers left Aguilar-Delgado had come back into the property alone and asked to search for her ex-partner upstairs.
‘I said there’s no point but he continued to follow me up the stairs.
‘He let me walk in front of him and he was behind me which I thought was a bit strange.
‘As I got to the top he stood on the last step and stood towards me.’
She said he then put his hand down her top and began to kiss her.
‘He pushed me into the bedroom with the force of his tongue in my mouth.
‘His body was forced up against me so I sat against the bed.’
She says the officer then sucked on her breast.
He allegedly told her “look I’ve got a hard on” and pointed to his trousers before returning to the police car.
She said: ‘I was very scared to report the incident because it was on top of the American guy who’d been killed by police where they’d suffocated him in the street, so I got scared this police officer might come back and get me.’
She admitted she had been sexually attracted to the officer and went out to give him her phone number on a brown paper envelope after the incident, but afterwards she felt he had used her.
Robert Morris, defending Alguilar-Delgado, asked the woman: ‘Do you agree it’s a very odd thing to do, to give him your phone number after he’d just groped you?’
She replied: ‘He groped me and I thought he might still want to see me. I thought he might have been interested in me but obviously he wasn’t because he just used me in that situation.’
Mr Morris asked: ‘The truth is it’s a bizarre thing to do, and it’s a bizarre thing to do because you’ve made it all up.
‘Was this all part of a fantasy because you’re sexually attracted to police officers?’
She replied: ‘No.’
Mr Morris said the officers had been entirely professional and she went to the car and thanked them after they left.
He suggested that DNA evidence found on the woman’s nipple was there because when she shook the officer’s sweaty hand she adjusted the strap of her top, touching her chest.
Mr Morris said when she took the swab she rubbed it further up around her upper chest.
He said: ‘You’ve lied about this matter, is it all for attention?’
She replied: ‘Attention from who, why do you think I’d come all this way and make all of this up? This has had an impact on me, I’ve had to move home, I don’t trust police at all now.
‘This police officer done what I said.’
Alguilar-Delgado, of Crawley, West Sussex, denies one count of sexual assault by touching.
The trial continues.
