Woman made complaint against IOPC chief after he criticised police officers

A woman came forward to accuse the then head of Britain’s police watchdog of rape after seeing him criticising other police officers in the media, a court heard. Michael Lockwood, 65, is said to have assaulted two 14-year-old girls while working as a lifeguard at a leisure centre in Hull, east Yorkshire, between 1979 and 1986. He stood down as director general of the Independent Office for Police Conduct in December 2022. Lockwood denies three counts of rape and six…